[vacri]

With this essay, they are going on record as saying "We can track what happens with the car; it's no longer your verbal word against ours".

The bit about the front trunk log is basically saying to these kinds of lawyers that Tesla is not low-hanging fruit, and that they better either have a genuine grievance or really know their stuff before taking them on. Better to announce it early and scare off some of the bad guys, rather than rinse, repeat the exercise every time. If users know that there are logs like these, then they're less likely to pull simple cons like these, and Tesla doesn't waste their mechanics' time in doing all the preliminary diagnostic work.

[ericd]

Lots of small efficiency differences like this seem like they will add up to Tesla being much more efficient than the existing manufacturers. Good move long term, IMO.

[waterlesscloud]

But there's a flip side to that.

As everyone reading this site knows, there's always a way around these measures. And someone somewhere is going to figure them out. And then sabotage the car, and it's going to hurt that Tesla has all this logging and it shows nothing fishy.

Not saying they shouldn't use the logging, but it's maybe not so smart to make it a point of contention and then incentivize the circumvention even more.