@DrunkEngineer A normal company fires its CEO and cleans house after something like that. Instead Tesla just offered him a big new compensation package to encourage him to stay and keep destroying their reputation and any shred of morality they may claim to have.

Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers, the “Mothership”, and received an acknowledgement. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.

Holy fucking shit. What is the purpose of deleting the data on the vehicle other than to sabotage the owner of the vehicle?

You would think that’s a crime

Folks. Publicly traded companies will ALWAYS compare the expected value of breaking the law with compliance.

Say it costs $100 million to follow the law. Breaking it comes with a $300 million fine, but only a 20% chance of getting caught.

They compare a 100% chance of paying $100 million to a 20% chance of paying $300 million.

Average cost of following the law: $100 million

Average cost of breaking it: $60 million

If we're gonna do capitalism (which I would rather we not, for the record!), we have to make that expected value calculation break in favor of following regulations. If it is cheaper to break the law than to follow it, you're not just losing money by complying: you're giving ground to your competition. Fines need to be massive. Infractions need to get caught and punished. Executives need to be held personally accountable. Corporations need to be dissolved. Fines cannot be just the cost of doing business.

Isn't this how murderers act? This sounds like they "accidentally" (collateral damage) killed people and then are trying to cover it up.

Scumbags

Is this the one where the car crashes after Autopilot turns off? Where Tesla tries to claim that the driver floored it after it turned off?

I really wish Roosevelt was around to smash these companies into pieces for this shit.

I swear I'm not a tesla fan boy but I'm going to sit here and pull baseless excuses out of my ass for two paragraphs in order to defend this terrible company headed by a literal nazi.

— this entire fucking comment section

Musk = POS Nazi.

Beta test of the Tesla Autolawyer huh?

a company doing unethical immoral things, purgery and lying to officials? thats been done a billion times already. Elon is no different then any other scum bag who runs the world.

Another reason why Leon Hitler and Krasnov shut down the NTSB office that was investigating their shitty Autopilot system.

Nobody will go to jail for this.

Tesla's reputation is not doing great

Tesla is well known for its evil practices. Anyone who stands up gets reprimanded and fired.

Good reminder for anyone that still has a Tesla to a) never trust tesla autopilot and b) get a third party dashcam.

Yes Tesla has a built-in dashcam feature and in the case above it deleted footage from the car's internal storage, not an SD card or SSD installed by the user. But would I trust it in an actual emergency when the car could feasibly delete the local copy of files? Fuuuuuck no.

It's almost like corporations are psychopathic in nature, and Tesla's CEO is notoriously psychopathic to boot.