It's been a fracas with Google too. Take this discussion (the first substantial one I dug up on the topic): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6873032

There's someone making the same consent argument (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6873947 ) and lots of people expressing ambivalence and more about sharing the data with Google.

As far as how people are responding to Tesla doing it, you did reply to a comment questioning their practices without evening being exposed to them.