Kimberly Gross 7/5/23 Kimberly Gross 7/5/23

What We’re Reading

Police Are Requesting Self-Driving Car Footage for Video Evidence

Bloomberg, June 29, 2023

Tesla FSD V12 Will No Longer Be Beta: Elon Musk

InsideEVs, June 30, 2023

Leaked Tesla documents reveal a major issue with one of the company’s most talked-about vehicles: ‘I am astounded’

Yahoo!, July 1, 2023

Kimberly Gross 5/6/22 Kimberly Gross 5/6/22

It’s Admissible! It’s Dispositive! Dashcam Video and Vehicle Data as Evidence

In our What We’re Reading post this week, we highlighted an article entitled “$100K Tesla Model S Totaled In Crash: TeslaCam Footage Used As Evidence” from InsideEVs, which illustrates the value of dashcam video in determining liability in an accident. In this particular case, a “TeslaCam”—a standard feature on all of Tesla’s vehicles—captured a head-on collision involving a Model S. As the driver in the Model S was turning left through an intersection, the dashcam caught another vehicle in cross traffic running the light, thus causing the collision. The Tesla driver’s insurance company was able to use the dashcam footage to place clear blame on the other driver. Without it, the Tesla driver would have been found at fault.

This got us wondering: how has dashcam video and other vehicle data been used as evidence in litigation?

Kimberly Gross 5/4/22 Kimberly Gross 5/4/22