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Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it

12 days ago
  • #Data Deletion
  • #Tesla
  • #Wrongful Death Lawsuit
  • Tesla found partly liable in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a 2019 pedestrian death in Florida.
  • Tesla claimed it did not have the fatal crash's data until a hacker recovered it from the crashed car.
  • The company, known for providing customer data to rebut claims, said it had no data in this case.
  • Lawyers sought the 'collision snapshot'—data from the car's cameras and sensors before and after the crash.
  • After the snapshot was uploaded to Tesla's servers, the local copy was marked for deletion, and someone at Tesla may have deleted the server copy.