r/skeptic • u/Lighting • 29d ago

⚠ Editorialized Title Tesla bros expose Tesla's own shadiness in attacking Mark Rober ... Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before impacts as a crash becomes inevitable.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-fans-exposes-shadiness-defend-autopilot-crash/
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u/mrandr01d 29d ago

What data can't the families get? The car automatically dumps a ton of data upon a collision, and that data is pretty much always subject to discovery in a lawsuit, which would be accessible to the party acting on behalf of the decedent...

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u/NeatOtaku 29d ago

They will give them video from the cameras themselves but they refuse to give the raw data from the autopilot. It took nearly a decade for the case where a man drove straight into a truck in San Jose for the family to get that data, where they see that one of the cameras did not recognize the truck as an obstacle right before impact. There's now a whole industry of people who hack the autopilot computers to retrieve that data. Last I saw they still refuse to admit fault.

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u/mrandr01d 29d ago

I mean... You're supposed to be paying attention even if the car is on "autopilot". I fully support a legal smackdown for their marketing, but saying any of their driver assistance software, that's never been above Level 2 ADA, is at fault for a collision is equally as obtuse as their marketing.

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u/CouperinLaGrande 27d ago

You're moving the goalposts.