I'm honestly surprised that Tesla never took advantage of all the cameras in all its cars to do some kind of mapping project. I always thought that was incredibly valuable data. Sort of an automatically crowd-sourced street view.

> surprised that Tesla never took advantage of all the cameras in all its cars to do some kind of mapping

Don’t they [1][2]?

[1] https://www.privacyinternational.org/examples/1929/tesla-lea...

[2] https://electrek.co/2020/10/24/tesla-collecting-insane-amoun...

Some people would tell me that they do, but only for training their internal self-driving AI.

I'm not sure about the privacy implications. You say "all its cars" but you actually mean "all its customers cars". The relationship between Uber and the cars/drivers is fairly different.