Tesla FSD for all its cool progress and novelty, it is today of course mostly a toy/demo that does not at all reduce the fatigue of driving in the same way that classic AP has on higways for years. Similarly, I rarely use it because it drives so unpredictably, irrationally, slowly, like a drunkard with no lane-placement care in the world, etc.
Yet despite this, for me to even have the luxury of turning it on when I want to, I have to give Elon permission to watch me 24/7 in my car and garage basically. No opt-out, no preference to limit data gathering to accidents/collisions only, etc.
Given privacy implications of Elon and his acolytes as revealed in by real world abuse, I have completely disabled all of these features in my car:
Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars (because completely disabling these toy features is the only way to re-enable any semblance of privacy in my own home and car again)
And to be clear, having no VIN associations does not make it even 0.00001% less invasive or violating of my privacy. It's completely unacceptable to have an eyeball in my car recording me 24/7 and sending clips back home to Papa Musk and
Sauron Tesla, period.
I'm curious what are other people's thoughts on the in-cabin recording, data sharing, attentiveness training, etc. that we are all forced to participate in? To me, this seems like a class-action lawsuit simply waiting to be filed and an at-scale heist of unfathomable amounts of PII and personal data (even sans VIN). It's total nonsense that I'm unable to use the functionality I paid for without giving away all privacy; we're expected to just be unpaid data generators for them, with our faces, our children's faces, diaper changes, home interiors and entire garages and basements, and more. Absolutely absurd price to pay to have my car waddle around within a lane like someone who just left the pub at 2am.