POLICE NOW TAKING TESLAS WITHOUT OWNERS’ PERMISSION TO DOWNLOAD SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS
There’s been a lot of coverage about bias against electric cars, and Teslas in particular this past year. People have been vandalizing them, using special polluting black smoke to blind their drivers, even harassing their drivers. But when it comes to Teslas, these criminal antics have ended up going on the record, as the cars have their very own special cameras and sensors to capture what’s happening around them. But it seems this now futurist technical feature is taking a new turn, of sorts. Police in California are taking Teslas, temporarily anyway, to download their surveillance video footage to get evidence of other crimes.
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TESLAS NEAR SCENES OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY CAN BE A GOLDMINE OF VIDEO EVIDENCE
It’s been a few years since police have started relying on Teslas to assist in their criminal investigations. But what’s new is how police in Oakland, California (and other places) have been going the extra mile to get the evidence they need to go after criminals. In a lot of “cases,” police try to get the Teslas owners’ permission to access the criminal video evidence they hope to find in them. But what’s happening now is that if the cops think they need to access this evidentiary trove faster, they simply take the Teslas into custody and get their video data without the owners involved until after the fact.
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TESLAS ARE ALREADY NOTEWORTHY FOR PRIVACY CONCERNS, AND THE LAWS WILL NEED TO CATCH UP
Yes, the police are using court-ordered warrants to tow the Teslas. But for the car owners, this has to be somewhat disturbing to go to your car only to find it gone, then report it stolen, then find out that it was actually the police who stole it. And all too soon, most cars will have video recording features like these Teslas. And that means the public at large will unwillingly (if not unwittingly) be a part of the surveillance state. China has already banned any Teslas from being within a certain distance of official buildings. What will be next?
When cars like Teslas become a myriad of privacy concerns, legislation will inevitably follow. What will that be?
