[darpa_escapee]

> essentially turning all purchasers into unpaid neural network training practitioners.

Pretty sure customer data isn't uploaded en masse to train networks at Tesla.

[mcny]

I bet of they allowed people to opt in, at least a huge minority of Tesla owners would jump through hoops (like login and recaptcha) to contribute data if it advances the science.

[cma]

They run in shadow mode to gain statistical data, and I believe when actively used they can send more detailed data around disengagements.

[m463]

> By November 2016, Autopilot had operated actively on hardware version 1 vehicles for 300 million miles (500 million km) and 1.3 billion miles (2 billion km) in shadow mode.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot