2 ms·

"Tesla requested redaction of fields of the crash report based on a claim that those fields contained confidential business information," an NHTSA spokesperson

"Tesla requested redaction of fields of the crash report based on a claim that those fields contained confidential business information," an NHTSA spokesperson told Insider in a statement. "The Vehicle Safety Act explicitly restricts NHTSA's ability to release what the companies label as confidential information. Once any company claims confidentiality, NHTSA is legally obligated to treat it as confidential unless/until NHTSA goes through a legal process to deny the claim." There's nothing confidential about which systems were active. The driver knows this, assuming they're not dead. You don't get to claim something is confidential if it's information that's already out there.

FireBeyond 3y ago
> There's nothing confidential about which systems were active. The driver knows this, assuming they're not dead. You don't get to claim something is confidential if it's information that's already out there. Therein lies another problem. Tesla will happily (and without your specific agreement) release any and all telemetry, or use it against you, if they feel it will protect their reputation. One of the earlier fatal FSD-related crashes, Tesla held a press conference to defend FSD. They talked about "requiring driver attention" and that, in this case, "the vehicle had issued a warning to the driver about their inattentiveness". What they didn't say in that press conference, and was only revealed much later, though they obviously knew it at that time, was that while the vehicle had triggered an inattention warning: 1) It happened only one time, and 2) It happened eighteen MINUTES before the collision.