Car Owners Should Control Data Collected by Cars
What?<p>&gt; <i>We know our smartphones, Nests and Alexas collect data, and we’ve come to accept an implicit contract: We trade personal information for convenience. With cars, we have no such expectation ... What carmakers are doing with the collected data isn’t clear.</i><p>At least Tesla has demonstrated that their data collection is for training their full self-driving capability.  That represents tremendous end-user value, in my opinion.<p>To me, this NY Times article is an argument that smartphones and smart agents should exfiltrate <i>less</i> data than they do.  It&#x27;s the purported end-user value of smartphone and smart agent data collection that I find less credible.  Yes, they should collect data, but it&#x27;s quite unclear why so much of the data needs to be hoarded and used by cloud motherships.  That data can be stored and worked with on-device; the premise that on-device computation is too limited is just flimsy.<p>Frankly the value of smart agents as a whole is a bit murky, especially when lined up against full self-driving cars.