Comment Re:Real reason (Score 2) 68
It has a lot of benefits.
For examples:,
- training of self-driving systems.
- safety features like automated notification of emergency services, with location, upon airbag deployment or detected high g-forces.
- discouraging auto theft
- sharing of road conditions data among all vehicles (e.g. enabling automated setting of adjustable suspension settings)
- optimization of vehicle performance via fleet statistics analysis
- over the air updates of vehicle software and firmware including safety "recall" mandated improvements.
- intelligent maintenance of the vehicle based on technical operating history downloaded to maintenance organization.
Tesla has all of this, and almost all of it is by explicit opt-in by the car owner.
If US is paranoid about where that data is going, they can just mandate or pressure companies into a firewalling of the data into US data centers with data access only to US personnel of the car companies. As has been done with tiktok.
For examples:,
- training of self-driving systems.
- safety features like automated notification of emergency services, with location, upon airbag deployment or detected high g-forces.
- discouraging auto theft
- sharing of road conditions data among all vehicles (e.g. enabling automated setting of adjustable suspension settings)
- optimization of vehicle performance via fleet statistics analysis
- over the air updates of vehicle software and firmware including safety "recall" mandated improvements.
- intelligent maintenance of the vehicle based on technical operating history downloaded to maintenance organization.
Tesla has all of this, and almost all of it is by explicit opt-in by the car owner.
If US is paranoid about where that data is going, they can just mandate or pressure companies into a firewalling of the data into US data centers with data access only to US personnel of the car companies. As has been done with tiktok.