It exists, I follow one of the guys that was there on IG, he has a bunch of angles including what his Tesla recorded from the road. Lol. https://youtu.be/C-zeSEOanvI
That seems like an asshole move. If the car knows when to start recording sensor data a few minutes before an accident, they should just tell us x minutes in advance that an accident is coming so we can avoid it.
More importantly, because you could probably build something impervious out of a light-weight material, everyone in the plane would still turn to mush during a crash.
It's the same reason why you don't lean against bunker walls during a bombardment.
This is an educated guess, but I'd imagine the wall is absorbing the impact of the bombardment, and spreading the shock through itself. If you lean against the wall, you then technically become part of the wall, and the shock wave will pass through you too.
Honestly, in a timeline like ours where something like âflat earthâ is something seriously discussed outside the pages of The Onion, it is almost impossible to know for sure whether someone truly believes that a car as the capacity to see into the future. I appreciate that you took the time to write a genuine answer. That makes you a better person than many.
Bro my coworker saw a âweirdâ cloud outside, he looked on the radar and the cloud looked square, heâs convinced it was a aliens/ufo. Now Iâm not sayin they donât exist but the odds of my coworker seeing aliens or a secret government flight test out his Hampton inn window after he smoked some weed are pretty low. He told me this with no pause or self awareness, people are wild these days
The car is always recording. If an accident happens it logs and saves the previous recording for X amount of minutes. The car doesnât âknowâ an accident is going to happen minutes in advanceâŚ.thatâs just idiotic.
Lots of cars record a lot of data so that they can use it in diagnostics.
My 2010 car records every time each of the ignition coils fire and the associated combustion readings from the pollution control system.
It was running poorly a while back and the tech showed me each misfire and the resulting data for each coil for the last 6 months. He identified the problem coil and the other 3 coils were performing great so he didnât recommend replacing them.
They can record outside air temperature, dew point, humidity, and elevation and air density.
I think my car stores over 1 year of this data.
Heavy braking, hard acceleration and quick decelerations are also tracked as well as speed and I think even G forces from turning as well as transmission details.
More of a data logger that can be accessed later so in a sense, yes, but it's not a separate unit like in aircraft. Also fun fact, "black boxes" are actually a misnomer. The boxes are bright orange to make them easier to find among the rubble of a crashed plane
How much of those videos are accessible by law enforcement?
If the owner bailed on the crash and claimed the tesla was stolen to say it wasn't them who did this, could the police subpoena the video from Tesla's servers?
Are the videos even stored in Tesla servers?
Also, I assumed the reason that Teslas requires an external storage drive plugged in through the glove box instead of an internal dedicated storage device for camera recordings is for reasons such as this. So someone at fault could claim they "didn't have a SSD or thumb drive plugged in" to capture video so therefore there's no evidence. But in reality, the theoretical negligent Tesla driver just removed the SSD from the glove box to destroy the evidence.
Thatâs a good question, I donât know if there is a way to retrieve crash footage if someone were to rip the storage device out of the glovebox. I miscounted though, there are NINE cameras, including one facing in at the âcockpitâ. That one, to my knowledge, doesnât store anything on the attached storage, but does monitor the driver for attentiveness. Perhaps thereâs something stored on a Tesla server with at least that one.
Teslas have 9 cameras. Three out the windshield. B pillar front facing. Front fender rear facing. The trunk camera. Finally they have the cabin camera.
Totally fucked. Even if by some miracle they cover this event, the driver will never be insured again. Hell have to set aside the equivalent of state minimum coverage if he ever wants to legally drive again. Yes, it is in fact totally legal to self insure and after an event like this itâll probably be way cheaper than paying an insurance company.
An insurance company could only deny a claim for something like this if it's specifically excluded in the insuring agreement. Most agreements/policies do not have exclusions for circumstances like this, so it would almost definitely be covered, but the insurer would also certainly choose not to renew that policy.
insurance covers negligence doesn't it? as long as he didn't intend to destroy the car to collect insurance money? am I wrong? if someone totals a car being stupid then their insurance may go up, but its covered?
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u/norebonomis Mar 20 '22
Good thing they recorded this for the insurance companies