Tesla only acknowledged that it had received the data as soon as the police took the damaged infotainment system from Tesla and Autopilot Control Unit to a Tesla technician to diagnose, but at that time the local collision -moment recording was considered irreparable.
That is where the hacker, only identified as @greentheonly, came in his username on X. Greentheonly told the Washington Post that “it was clear to every reasonable person that the data was there.”
During the trial, Tesla told the court that it had not hidden the data, but it lost. The company's lawyer said the post that the practices of Tesla's data processing were “awkward” and that another search provided the data, after he acknowledged that @greentheonly had removed the Snapshot locally from the car.
“We didn't think we had it, and we found out that we did it … And luckily we did that because this is an incredibly helpful piece of information,” said Tesla's lawyer, Joel Smith.
