{"id":1208962,"date":"2023-12-05T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1208962"},"modified":"2023-12-05T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T18:30:30","slug":"tesla-whistleblower-calls-cars-with-autopilot-experiments-in-public-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1208962","title":{"rendered":"Tesla whistleblower calls cars with Autopilot \u201cexperiments in public roads\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/getty-tesla-logo-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Tesla car company's logo\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/getty-tesla-logo.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1666\" data-width=\"2500\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A former Tesla employee who leaked thousands of accident reports and other documents expressed his doubts about the safety of Tesla&#8217;s Autopilot system in an interview with the BBC published today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think the hardware is ready and the software is ready,&#8221; ex-Tesla employee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-67591311\">Lukasz Krupski said<\/a>. &#8220;It affects all of us because we are essentially experiments in public roads. So even if you don&#8217;t have a Tesla, your children still walk in the footpath.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit group Blueprint for Free Speech recently awarded Krupski with its Whistleblowing Prize. &#8220;In late 2021, Lukasz realised that\u2014even as a service technician\u2014he had access to a shockingly wide range of internal data at Tesla,&#8221; the group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueprintforfreespeech.net\/en\/prize\/recipients\/2023\/lukasz-krupski\">prize announcement<\/a> said. &#8220;Not only did access controls seem almost entirely absent, other lapses were evident in the data Lukasz was seeing: serious lapses that risked putting Tesla&#8217;s customers, and those sharing the roads with them, in danger.&#8221; Those safety risks included sudden accelerations and braking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1988720#p3\">Read 12 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1988720&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1988720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla whistleblower calls cars with Autopilot \u201cexperiments in public roads\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images) A former Tesla employee who leaked thousands of accident reports and other documents expressed his doubts about the safety of Tesla&#8217;s Autopilot system in an interview with the BBC published today. &#8220;I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1208962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1208962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}