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Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it

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650 points clcaev | 3 comments | 29 Aug 25 11:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.673s | source
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declan_roberts ◴[29 Aug 25 14:22 UTC] No.45064529[source]▶
Everyone is mad at Tesla but they're literally the only company collecting this kind of crash metadata.

Other car manufacturers would never get in trouble for this because it's not even possible for them to do it in the first place!

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1. fred_is_fred ◴[29 Aug 25 14:24 UTC] No.45064546[source]▶
Wrong. Almost all modern cars track location and tons of other data. Ford even has a screen that pops-up saying basically "hey you're opting into this FYI".
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2. declan_roberts ◴[29 Aug 25 15:22 UTC] No.45065310[source]▶
You think other cars are recording whether they detected a person and the approximate location of the person to the car?
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3. inetknght ◴[29 Aug 25 15:43 UTC] No.45065566[source]▶
I certainly think that. Because, as a software engineer in robotics and drones, that's exactly what I would do. Using logs to recreate the scenario, especially for regression testing, is standard process for competent software engineers.