Tesla employee of nearly 5 years was sacked over the phone while on vacation

Re:Tesla employee of nearly 5 years was sacked over the phon... by SR2Z on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:30PM (#32022745)

Tesla's "Sentry Mode" feature records motion around the car, which is fine.

It can also be configured to blink the lights and display a warning on the big central screen that you're being recorded.

Given that someone sitting in their car and trying to bother passerby by blinking their lights is hilariously antisocial, I'm just counting down the days until we all decide it's ok to mask up and throw rocks through the windows of Teslas that are configured to do it autonomously.

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Re:Tesla employee of nearly 5 years was sacked over the phon... by t_mann on Friday July 08, 2022 @04:28AM (#32024377)

Seriously, they do that? Which lunatic came up with that idea?

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Re:Tesla employee of nearly 5 years was sacked over the phon... by murillians on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:52PM (#32027798)

I think Elon asked it to be done after a slew of Tesla's got keyed/vandalized by people who hate EV's. It's gotten a few people arrested

https://futurism.com/tesla-sentry-mode-caught-vandal-model-3

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Re:Tesla employee of nearly 5 years was sacked over the phon... by t_mann on Saturday July 09, 2022 @03:58AM (#32032932)

> If the threat escalates to break-in level, the vehicle sounds an alarm and begins blasting music

Thanks. Well, on paper this sounds a lot more reasonable than what the parent described, but what they might be experiencing might simply be the difference between marketing speak and the reality of AI systems where the cost of false positives is practically entirely externalized, whereas anger about false negatives gets fed back right to the devs.

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Re:Tesla employee of nearly 5 years was sacked over the phon... by t_mann on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:15AM (#32033918)

Edit: I saw some more reports, this does look like disgusting behavior that Tesla are trying to combat here. Just sad that the solution always seems to be more surveillance.

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Re:Tesla employee of nearly 5 years was sacked over the phon... by hotpotamus on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:51PM (#32022898)

Before I got to the end of your post I was thinking about how that makes me want to take a bat to the windshield of a car - oh, you're recording me? Watch how much the police care when you try to show them; I doubt the mask would matter. Not my best instinct, but man that sounds agitating.

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