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Tesla’s response aa Cyber truck explosion outside President-elect Trump’s Las Vegas hotel on New Year’s Day has raised serious concerns about vehicle data and privacy.
Investigators say he is 37 years old Matthew Livelsberger he committed suicide moments before the Rented Cybertruck it exploded Investigators are still examining evidence, but Tesla has already made statements showing how much data the company was collecting.
Some of the first responses in the case came from Tesla founder Elon Musk, who wrote on the social platform X that “we have (now) confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cyber truck and not it’s related to the vehicle itself. All the vehicle’s telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion.”
This indicates that the Cybertruck was transmitting data until the explosion. Las Vegas metro police and the FBI have been using this data to help reconstruct the case.
“I have to specifically thank Elon Musk for being able to capture all of the video from Tesla charging stations across the country,” an official said. “He sent it directly to us. We tracked his movements through the Tesla charging station to Monument, Colorado on December 30. On December 31, the truck was loaded in Trinidad, Colorado; Las Vegas, New Mexico and Albuquerque and Gallup, New Mexico.”
Authorities confirmed that the Cybertruck was not in full autonomous driving mode at any time during the incident.
Investigators also recovered a microchip from the vehicle. They haven’t shared any video from inside the truck, which could provide even more information, but this remains the most prominent example of how modern cars collect information about their drivers and those around them.
Tesla is not the only brand that does this collect this data, with most car companies doing similar activities.
A 2023 study by the Mozilla Foundation found that 75 percent of car brands said yes share or sell driver dataand 84% of car brands said they can share driver’s personal data, and 76% said they can sell your personal data.
This leads privacy experts to warn that people’s cars are the most monitored part of their day-to-day lives.
