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Cops Are Towing Teslas to Secure Recordings Captured by the Cars Cameras

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30 pointsIronWolve8 comments

I presume they have to provide the owners with a rental car in accordance with the 5th amendment?

> nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-5/

They won't provide you with a loaner to replace any other item they seize as evidence, I can't see why a car would be any different.

I don't know about other property seized as evidence, but my car costs a nontrivial amount for me to own and maintain, and it's critical for my way of life. Losing my car for even a couple of days would be a very serious disruption of my life.

I think you are woefully underestimating the apathy that the justice system (or any other large bureaucracy, public or private) has for the collateral damage it causes to peoples lives in pursuit of executing policy.

I don’t know, are these vids kept on an SD card or otherwise accessible via Tesla corp.? Why doesn't this same principle apply to home cams, where the cops have to ask permission for the footage?Seems like an obvious question. Tesla codes for Musk and Musk now codes right, so if you're being honest you have to at least entertain the idea this is meant to decrease the cost benefit analysis of owning a Tesla.

This data is stored on a USB flash drive Tesla provides with the vehicle.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-3BCC07C...

> To protect your privacy, video recordings are saved locally to a formatted USB flash drive's onboard memory. Recordings are not sent to Tesla. Model 3 does not record videos when Dashcam is Off.

[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409882

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