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Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO: Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees. Some of the record ings caught Tesla customer s in embarrassing situations. One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked. Also shared: crashes and road-rage incidents. One crash video in 2021 showed a Tesla driving at high speed in a residential area hitting a child riding a bike, according to another ex-employee. The child flew in one direction, the bik...

Alpine exclusive: 'Massive advantage' in not having Red Bull as customer

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Alpine technical director Matt Harman says not having to supply "distraction" Red Bull Formula 1 power units is a "massive advantage ". The long time relationship between Red Bull and Renault fractured in the turbo hybrid era owing to the French manufacturer's struggle to get on par with Mercedes and Ferrari units, meaning Red Bull were left fighting for occasional wins. In mid-2018, it was announced that the partnership would cease, with Red Bull switching over to Honda power from '19 onwards, leaving Renault as a supplier to McLaren as well as their own works squad, now badged as Alpine. McLaren elected to return to Mercedes units for 2021, meaning Renault are the only team not to have any customer supply deals with only the Enstone-based outfit running their offering. However, Harman believes this has rewards for the team throughout the process, from design, building and racing. ...