Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
lividweasel@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThat jumped out at me too. Giving the benefit of the doubt, it could be that this “snapshot” includes a very large amount of data that could be problematic if stored locally for longer. In reality, they probably do it this way for exactly this type of situation, so they can retain full control of the potentially-damning data.
Bullshit. It was saved locally. It can stay saved locally but be marked for deletion if storage gets tight. This is a solved computer science problem.
There is zero reason to delete it immediate except to cover their asses.
If I was on the jury I’d be pushing for maximum monetary penalty.
Treble damages
Agreed, if there was concern about the data falling into the wrong hands then there’s many different ways to secure the data (encryption, masking, hardening) besides just deleting it. Tesla’s strategy here totally foregoes any typical data retention lifecycle like you mention, which is usually to delete old data that has little to no benefit besides just adding additional risk (or if there’s no space left). Plus you have to take into account the additional consequences you take on by deleting the data locally such as not being in compliance with regulations, and potentially risking sanctions or heavy fines.
That’s not “benefit of the doubt”, that’s “playing devil’s advocate”. They probably used something like this.
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If they can transmit it, it is not a lot. It is that simple.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nearly all of the vehicles have 4G/5G connectivity via AT&T. This isn’t a dial up connection. They can transmit whatever the fuck they want.
amorpheus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Still, if it’s small enough to transmit via any wireless connection, it’s small enough to keep the local copy.
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mate, a 1 TB micro SD costs less than 100 $. How much does a high bandwidth high/no data limit 5G connection cost and how long would that need to actually transmit that much?
What sensor data is there even supposed to be? Even at 1 millisecond resolution we are talking about megabytes.