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A former Tesla worker who leaked hundreds of accident studies and different paperwork expressed his doubts concerning the security of Tesla’s Autopilot system in an interview with the BBC printed at present.
“I do not assume the {hardware} is prepared and the software program is prepared,” ex-Tesla worker Lukasz Krupski stated. “It impacts all of us as a result of we’re primarily experiments in public roads. So even when you do not have a Tesla, your kids nonetheless stroll within the footpath.”
The nonprofit group Blueprint for Free Speech lately awarded Krupski with its Whistleblowing Prize. “In late 2021, Lukasz realised that—whilst a service technician—he had entry to a surprisingly wide selection of inner knowledge at Tesla,” the group’s prize announcement stated. “Not solely did entry controls appear nearly solely absent, different lapses have been evident within the knowledge Lukasz was seeing: severe lapses that risked placing Tesla’s clients, and people sharing the roads with them, in peril.” These security dangers included sudden accelerations and braking.
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