The customer is always wrong: Tesla lets out self-driving car data when it suits
&gt;Tesla said it doesn’t show anyone the logs themselves, only a description of the logs that it distributes to media when it feels the integrity of its product has been impugned.<p>&gt;“Drivers don’t have access to this data to defend themselves if they need it,” the Swiss driver said. “So this data is 100% to the disadvantage of the drivers.”<p>This is scary stuff and is one of the main things that spooks me about Elon&#x27;s view of the future. He&#x27;s pretty much the anti-Stallman. My devices log everything I do in a blackbox fashion and when I have a conflict with these companies they can use this logging against me. I can&#x27;t get these logs and even if I could how could I properly interpret them for my defense. Look at how Toyota had teams of experts from all over the world going over their recent acceleration issues and still had a hard time making heads or tails of it.<p>How can a consumer like myself ever hope to have these kinds of resources if there&#x27;s a conflict?<p>&gt;The Guardian could not find a single case in which Tesla had sought the permission of a customer who had been involved in an accident before sharing detailed information from the customer’s car with the press when its self-driving software was called into question.<p>This is inexcusable. Executitves at Tesla shouldn&#x27;t be making these calls, the consumer should.<p>I think IoT and smarteverything is going to have us re-evaluate our relationships with the companies we buy from . There&#x27;s a fairly major power inbalance in their favor and they are not shy about using it.