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Comment by thr0wnawaytod4y | Hacker News Reader

pretty sure tesla will have some form of log, whether it was active or not

But as always they would deactivate FSD / AP 1 second prior to the crash, so that they can claim at the moment of the crash FSD / AP was not active

or just modify the log!

I don't get this argument at all. Either you ask them and trust the answer to be somewhat useful, or you just don't ask Tesla to tell the police/court what the state was 1-10-30 seconds before the crash?

I might be small-minded, but why would police/courts/insurance companies(?) continue to ask Tesla "did the car or the driver steer?" if it is "obvious" to everyone that when they say "the driver" that it was disconnected a second before the crash?

I'm not saying the Tesla does or does not lie through their teeth about it, just that it seems like the post above and similar ones are framed as if JoeRandomInternetPerson can easily recognize this lie but people who seemingly spend their whole days figuring out who is to blame in traffic accidents haven't cracked this mystery yet?

I guess we are at a point in regards to AI driving where it actually doesn't matter "who" drove the car, as in the driver is always fully responsible, regardless of what the sticker on the FSD says, so they would ask Tesla out of want for statistics or something and not to prove anything that would shift blame away from the driver in any case.

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