Tesla Buried Autopilot Crash Records to Mislead Investigators

It’s pretty clear why Tesla didn’t want an Autopilot case going to trial. Things like this are being laid bare by Electrek for all to see the fraud clearly.

…we now have access to the trial transcripts, which confirm that Tesla was extremely misleading in its attempt to place all the blame on the driver.

The company went as far as to actively withhold critical evidence that explained Autopilot’s performance around the crash.

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.

What ensued were years of battle to get Tesla to acknowledge that this collision snapshot exists and is relevant to the case.

The police repeatedly attempted to obtain the data from the collision snapshot, but Tesla led the authorities and the plaintiffs on a lengthy journey of deception and misdirection that spanned years.

Deception and misdirection to hide the dangerous fraud of Autopilot. Who can forget what the CEO was saying at the same time:

Source: My 2021 Presentation

We’re talking about a 2019 crash here:

  • Tesla had the data on its servers within minutes of the crash
  • When the police sought the data, Tesla redirected them toward other data
  • When the police sought Tesla’s help in extracting it from the computer, Tesla falsely claimed it was “corrupted”
  • Tesla invented an “auto-delete” feature that didn’t exist to try explain why it couldn’t originally find the data in the computer
  • When the plaintiffs asked for the data, Tesla said that it didn’t exist
  • Tesla only admitted to the existence of the data once presented with forensic evidence that it was created and transfered to its servers.

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