fleet-telemetry

Tesla vehicles have a LOT of telemetry, which the company has used to establish fault for accidents and damage. I wouldn't be surprised if many of these cases involve the driver being less than forthcoming about what was happening when the damage occurred. Technology Review covered this back in 2016 after a driver falsely claimed their Model X crashed into a wall on its own. https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/06/08/70845/tesla-know... Last month, a court in China ordered an owner to publicly apologize and pay damages after falsely claiming her Model 3 had a brake failure. https://pandaily.com/a-tesla-owner-ordered-by-court-to-apolo... see also: https://github.com/teslamotors/fleet-telemetry

Hertz presumably use the fleet telemetry data Tesla provides [1] which probably give some interesting insights into how a car gets damaged. https://github.com/teslamotors/fleet-telemetry/blob/main/pro...

Based on the message spec[0], it doesn't look like this can be used to track Full Self Driving disengagements which is a shame. However, for its intended purpose which is presumably to help 3rd parties (eg Hertz) manage fleets it seems like a boon. [0] https://github.com/teslamotors/fleet-telemetry/blob/main/pro...