Most companies, Tesla included, will do this. Hell, Tesla will happily use your vehicle's telemetry at a press conference to say "look, it was the driver, not the car".
It's hard to argue that driving habits and warranty claims are "abusing your privacy". If you took a TV back to Best Buy that was covered in mud, would you expect them to honor a warranty replacement without asking about the dirt and mud? Or would that be "abusing your privacy" to do so?
The example I found of this was Kia denying a warranty claim because it showed that that specific econobox model was consistently being driven at 100mph, and spent a lot of time at or near redline.
My Audi (an RS, so expected to be considered for performance) will track how many times the ECU has been flashed, so even if you remove the tuning, it is noticeable. It also does a thing called GFF which will capture any time the vehicle ran outside of the stock ECU parameters, and will flag your vehicle with the factory that you may be potentially liable for any drivetrain issues.
Data brokers? I don't know about that, but yes, it is more of a privacy concern.
If the car cannot be driven at a certain speed, then they should limit its speed artificially and advertise its limitations transparently. Otherwise it is their fault and they should still honor warranty claims.
Leaving that aside, I still consider it a violation of privacy. No one expects that what they do with something they own is being monitored and recorded in order to be used against them at some opportune moment.
As for data brokers, the allegations are that they sell data to Lexis Nexis who then sells it to insurance companies and potentially others.
As for what other companies do … I don’t own a Tesla but I sort of expect a car with futuristic self driving capabilities to come with some degree of data collection. I don’t expect a basic Kia or Subaru or Ford or Honda to do that. Either way, I believe all of these vehicles should not collect any data by default and should be opt in only.
They probably do say "driving this car in a way that makes the engine scream invalidates the warranty" in some way or another. That's an easy one to detect. If I slammed up and down curbs all day long and the suspension went it'd be harder to detect, but no less not a warranty problem.
Most companies, Tesla included, will do this. Hell, Tesla will happily use your vehicle's telemetry at a press conference to say "look, it was the driver, not the car".
It's hard to argue that driving habits and warranty claims are "abusing your privacy". If you took a TV back to Best Buy that was covered in mud, would you expect them to honor a warranty replacement without asking about the dirt and mud? Or would that be "abusing your privacy" to do so?
The example I found of this was Kia denying a warranty claim because it showed that that specific econobox model was consistently being driven at 100mph, and spent a lot of time at or near redline.
My Audi (an RS, so expected to be considered for performance) will track how many times the ECU has been flashed, so even if you remove the tuning, it is noticeable. It also does a thing called GFF which will capture any time the vehicle ran outside of the stock ECU parameters, and will flag your vehicle with the factory that you may be potentially liable for any drivetrain issues.
Data brokers? I don't know about that, but yes, it is more of a privacy concern.