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Re:Tesla quietly drops “full self-driving” option as it adds... by antsar on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:25PM (#18257816)
Nice straw-man. The cars might send summarized metrics, maybe even video snippets of extraordinary events. That provides plenty of value while being a far cry from live-streaming all sensor data including video.

I'd still be pissed if my car did that without explicit opt-in, but it doesn't have to be nearly as bad as you make it sound.

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Re:Tesla quietly drops “full self-driving” option as it adds... by ghaff on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:37PM (#18257913)
I'm not sure what metrics it would summarize though. As I understand it, self-driving systems mostly use supervised learning for feature detection. If someone isn't flagging anomalous events/detections when they happen, I'm not sure what having summarized data is buying you for the most part. (Sure if there's an actual accident. But that is hopefully a rare event.)
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