Tesla is collecting insane amount of data from its Full Self-Driving test fleet

[tacobell fan]

Tesla is already collecting large amounts of data from the vehicles owners in its Full Self-Driving beta test fleet.

It is already releasing a new update improving on the release earlier this week.

 

Connectivity has been a flagship feature of Tesla’s offering in the auto industry.

It not only enables several fun and useful features for customers, but Tesla has also been using the connectivity to collect data from the fleet and improve features – mainly Autopilot.

When releasing an Autopilot update back in 2017, Tesla asked owners for the authorization to collect videos from the Autopilot cameras. 

After that, Tesla opened the floodgates of Autopilot data gathering.

The data collection is voluntary for Tesla customers, but most owners are more than willing to let Tesla collect data since the automaker uses the data to feed its neural networks powering Autopilot and now Full Self-Driving systems.

Tesla can detect when drivers intervene during Autopilot operations and send back data to the mothership in order to help the neural networks improve.

This is also true now that Tesla has started rolling out its Full Self-Driving Beta update this week.

Tesla owners can monitor their Wifi connection to know when and how much data Tesla is pulling from their cars

Right now, there are only a few Tesla owners in the limited release of the FSD Beta, but one of them monitored his car’s connection after a day of driving and managed to catch Tesla’s data collection.

He says that he saw Tesla pulling as much as 4 gigabytes of data from his car:

 

That’s a significant amount of data being pulled from the vehicle and it looks like Tesla is already pushing improvements less than a week after releasing the update to vehicles in its customer fleet.

Tesla has started pushing a new update (2020.40.8.11) to vehicles on the FSD Beta limited release.

 

[usetime63]

What's wrong in it, I would that's not their owners personal data.

[tacobell fan]

30 minutes ago, usetime63 said:

What's wrong in it, I would that's not their owners personal data.

No one debating right or wrong 

[Rebel_Uncle]

Ipudu tesla car wifi yela connect avudhi data upload kosam? mana house wifi vadudha yenti komap tesi or they have inbuilt wifi or something? how data trasnmission happens to mother tesla?

[tacobell fan]

45 minutes ago, Rebel_Uncle said:

Ipudu tesla car wifi yela connect avudhi data upload kosam? mana house wifi vadudha yenti komap tesi or they have inbuilt wifi or something? how data trasnmission happens to mother tesla?

Most Tesla’s are connected to network by default. I’m not familiar with Model 3 but Model S and X got unlimited internet. 

[dewarist]

1 hour ago, usetime63 said:

What's wrong in it, I would that's not their owners personal data.

Who knows what data is collected and what are they using it for. The least that they can do is to be transparent about what data is collected and what is that they are trying to do

[usetime63]

2 hours ago, dewarist said:

Who knows what data is collected and what are they using it for. The least that they can do is to be transparent about what data is collected and what is that they are trying to do

In this age, you can't be a ghost. Highly impossible unless you live in remote place or caves.

[usetime63]

3 hours ago, tacobell fan said:

No one debating right or wrong 

Good for you. 

[sattipandu]

All magic 

[mettastar]

4Gb aa .. storage costs bokka