2023-05-27 21:07:17
The investigation published in the German newspaper Handelsblatt said that Tesla Inc. customers filed more than 2,400 complaints about difficulties with auto-acceleration and 1,500 complaints about problems with the brakes between the years 2015 and March 2022.
A large data dump that was based on a whistleblower’s breach of Tesla’s internal documents reportedly suggests that problems with Tesla’s autonomous driving system may be considerably more frequent than authorities have suggested. and the media. This was discovered after the whistleblower gained unauthorized access to internal Tesla documents.
According to information taken from Tesla’s information technology (IT) system, complaints against these fully autonomous driving (FSD) capabilities originated from all over the world, including the United States of America, Europe, and Asia.
In particular, in a article Titled “My Autopilot Almost Killed Me,” Handelsblatt reported receiving 100 terabytes of data and 23,000 files. Within those files were 3,000 entries highlighting consumer safety concerns and stories of more than 1,000 accidents.
The publisher included a note stating that the data includes customer phone numbers.
According to the hundreds of customers Handelsblatt is said to have contacted, the fears were quite serious.
According to a Michigan man, his Tesla “suddenly braked, as hard as you can imagine.” When I was told to fasten my seat belt, the vehicle was about to come to a complete stop. Then I was hit by a second car.
Handelsblatt showed the files to the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology. The institute concluded that there is no reason to assume that “the data set does not come from IT systems that belong to or are located in the Tesla environment.”
Employees are instructed that, unless attorneys are involved, they are not to provide comments in writing, but to convey them “VERBALLY to the client.” Unless lawyers are involved, no written criticism should be given.
The post cites instructions that say, “Do not copy and paste the report below into an email, text message, or leave it on a customer voicemail,” and it is clear that this is a requirement.
One report came from a California doctor who said his Tesla accelerated under its own power in the fall of 2021 and crashed into two concrete pillars. He pointed out that the company never sent emails and that everything was always communicated verbally.
According to Tesla’s lawyers, the news organization must provide a copy of the data to Tesla, and all other copies of the data must be destroyed. Tesla’s lawyers also warned of legal action “for the theft of confidential and personal data.”
According to reports, the alleged documents would certainly be important to the current wrongful death lawsuits against Tesla. These claims claim that the company’s technology has significant security flaws. In addition, they can compel local, state, and federal authorities to take action.
State data protection officer Dagmar Hartge acknowledged the seriousness of the allegations, noting that if the allegations were to prove accurate, the data breach would have significant repercussions on a global scale. The situation has been forwarded to privacy advocates in the Netherlands so that further investigation can take place.
“Tesla takes the protection of its proprietary and confidential information, as well as the privacy of its employees and customers, very seriously.” “We intend to initiate legal proceedings against this individual for his theft of Tesla’s confidential information and employee personal data,” Tesla stated in a response that was reported by the publication. The statement was made in reaction to the theft of confidential information and personal data belonging to Tesla employees.
Chinese regulatory authorities have already begun to take action. About two weeks ago, Tesla was forced to provide an emergency software update for most of the cars it sold in China as a direct result of issues with unexpected and sudden acceleration.
Since 2016, Musk has made many claims that his self-driving vehicles would truly be autonomous, but he hasn’t lived up to those claims.
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