A lot of companies collect data with no intention the end result can produce little of value.
Other companies collect data with intention and it is a highly valuable product.
Acornloaf
Autonomous Vehicle companies use our cities as real world experiments. They package and sell the data, outside of using it themselves.
Serve Robotics has been explicit about this with their courier bots but all AV tech has this goal in mind.
The data is the current product
Acornloaf
“…the company eventually wants to outfit its human drivers’ cars with sensors to soak up real-world data for autonomous vehicle (AV) companies — and potentially other companies training AI models on physical-world scenarios.”
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a...
