For years we have been reporting different incidents with Tesla cars, where the (semi) autonomous driving function, known as Autopilot, has been the protagonist of cases that have ended in serious property damage and even in some cases fatalities. This obviously does not like the owner of the company Elon Musk.
But now he is probably more upset than ever, since a package with more than 100 GB of classified internal information from the automotive company has just been leaked and among the documents there are enough details that would suggest that in reality this function would be much more. flawed than we all believe.
Tesla Motors is at the center of the hurricane, since this leak would integrate private information, but in turn would contain details that would expose to a greater or greater extent a series of internal measures with which it could be analyzed whether or not the company silences the real number of problems with this function.
Tesla’s Autopilot would be more problematic than is admitted: this must not like Elon Musk
It happens that the German news agency handelsblatt (via Guardian) has published an extensive report, detailing the details of this massive leak with all kinds of information about Elon Musk’s automotive company.
The reports reviewed by the European media suggest that Tesla itself did not adequately protect the data of customers, employees and business partners. But in particular, it states that thousands of complaints have been received from its own consumers regarding the driving assistance system popularly known as Autopilot.
In the filtration they stand out 139 non-public reports of “unintentional emergency braking”, 383 reports of “phantom stops” triggered by false collision warnings plus other reports of cases of sudden acceleration that can still endanger pedestrians, road users and other vehicles.
Other exposed data would include database tables containing more than 100,000 names of former and current employees, private email addresses, phone numbers, employee salaries, customer bank details, and even one’s own social security number. Musk
The scale and volume of this leak is genuinely considerable and delicate. On top of that, due to the type of carelessness that the company implies, it could be subject to a fine of up to 4% of its annual sales by the European regulatory authorities. A figure that could exceed USD $3.5 billion.