"Elon Musk's Controversial Autopilot Saga: Spying on Drivers and Near-Death Experience"
Elon Musk wanted to use Tesla's internal driver monitoring camera to record video of drivers' behavior in order to defend the company in the event of investigations into the behavior of its Autopilot system. Musk believed that bad drivers, rather than bad software, were the main reason for most accidents. However, Tesla's privacy team pushed back, stating that the company cannot associate the camera footage with a specific vehicle, even in the event of a crash. Musk's dismissal of the privacy team's concerns raises questions about Tesla's privacy performance, especially considering previous incidents of video privacy breaches.