Your car may now testify against you in any accident you might have

It appears that in Self Driving or Automatic Pilot Mode, Teslas for now and any other cars in the future who have this type of technology (if you are the driver and sharing driving with your automatic pilot) that your car can now testify against you. I had to laugh when I read this the first time. So, unless you trust your automatic pilot completely or unless you just drive the thing yourself, liability laws seem to have just changed around Automatic pilots in cars.

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The greatest “eyewitness” that law enforcement and federal officials, who are investigating the incident, may have is the growing amount of data being produced by Teslas and other so-called “connected” vehicles. While event-data recorders, or so-called “black boxes,” in cars and trucks have provided some crash information for decades, real-time connected vehicles can produce hordes of data that could prove who, or what, caused an accident.
“It’s uncharted territory in the new type of data that is being introduced,” said Wayne Cohen, a Washington, D.C., trial lawyer and law professor at George Washington University. “That data is not regulated. There is no regulations that pertain to that data.”
Cohen and others believe the underlying data may be more reliable than witnesses’ observations and help automakers avoid frivolous class-action lawsuits.
“Now we’re going to have the car telling us that information,” Gail L. Gottehrer, partner at law firm Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP, said during a recent auto-tech conference in Novi. “It’s going to prove who’s at fault. Your car may essentially be testifying against you.”

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Tesla 'Autopilot' crashes raise new questions