Musk tells China data gathered by Teslas remain secret: report

Everybody spies. I watch my neighbors out my window.

just stay off the grid as much as possible.

world has changed.

whoever controls AI will control the world.

In his remarks, Musk insisted that no ................... Chinese company would take the risk of collecting private data and sharing it with their government.

Meanwhile, back on Earth.

No... Just Teslas. Don't buy one of those and you're good.

On-Star is no different. Have you ever wondered how the On-Star operator can locate your car and send a tow truck or ambulance to your location? Toyota, Honda and Nissan all have similar telematics in their cars. All modern cars with telematics know where you are, what speed you are driving, what radio station you are listening to, what phone numbers you dialed or what number called you if you use your phone through the car's Blue Tooth. Even without telematics cars with OBDII systems record speed, hard braking and emissions history that is down loaded when you smog your car, or can be downloaded by your insurance company after a collision to see if you were speeding, regardless of whether or not you are at fault. Rental car companies too. You pretty much have to buy a car manufactured before 1996 to avoid this.

Source please. This sounds exactly like a "dream scenario" someone on Tesla forums posted to get public opinion on and someone reposted it elsewhere as fact.

On-Star can unlock your doors if you are locked out. That feature is a big part of their advertising. Not hard to reverse the process. Just saying .........................

In his remarks, Musk insisted that no American or Chinese company would take the risk of collecting private data and sharing it with their government.

"Whether it’s Chinese or U.S., the negative effects if a commercial company did engage in spying -- the negative effects for that company would be extremely bad," Musk said.

What if the government made it a law that the company has to share with the government

What if the government made it a law that the company has to share with the government

It is already the law in China that any entity that uses the internet there must allow the Chinese government unrestricted access to its data.

How do we find equilibrium between good and bad? Fascinating techs fall in hands of hackers is kinds of inevitable, especially something like this.

Ummm... OK.... but that doesn't address what the first guy said at all, nor my request for a source. He's saying someone from a remote location can drive a Tesla to the nearest police station "via computer". This is schoolkid level sci-fi fantasy.

I was commenting that it is possible to remotely lock someone in a Tesla, but it looks like the hacker community has already figured out how to exploit weaknesses in a Tesla Model S and take control of one through a compromised CAN-Bus.

https://thehackernews.com/2016/09/hack-tesla-autopilot.html

Here is another:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/hacker-reportedly-gained-access-teslas-entire-fleet