When Your Car Becomes the Ultimate Witness: Data, Surveillance, and Your Rights

Not so long ago, the talk of autonomous (self-driving, that is) cars was all the rage. But now that term may be acquiring a new meaning applicable to a different type of car, as the police in the US are basically coming up with the question – “Did your Tesla witness a crime?”

The San Francisco Chronicle recently examined a seemingly new phenomenon – law enforcement starting to rely on all that data captured in cars like Teslas, with their myriad in-vehicle sensors and cameras – but also, more relevant to this story, external ones.