Tesla is going to be collecting short video clips from external cameras in existing Teslas on the road – to improve their self driving tech. This is all included on an Autopilot update.

Endgadget reported that the footage will help Tesla’s systems learn how to recognise lanes, signs and other visual cues that cars need to get around. Understandable – since to get the tech up to speed, Tesla is going to need a lot of data and where better to get them than actual usage by actual customers?

The company wants to put you at ease about privacy concerns though. Release notes passed on to Electrek stress that Tesla doesn’t tie the videos to your car’s vehicle identification number, and that it would be impossible to search Tesla’s system for videos linked to a particular car. So lets just say in the unfortunate event Tesla is hacked, they won’t know who is using which route home.

Apart from this additional update, the Autopilot update is a significant improvement on Model S or Model X released October 2016 or later. Endgadget wrote that “Autosteer now works up to the same speed limits (90MPH on the highway, 45MPH on signless off-highway roads) as with the original Autopilot system. About the only major speed restriction remaining is with automatic emergency braking, which is limited to 28MPH or lower until Tesla finishes the feature for its newer EVs.”

“You’ll also get active avoidance for side collisions at speeds between 30MPH and 85MPH, and an automatic high beam mode that can briefly turn off these lights to avoid blinding other drivers.”