The companies Tesla, NVIDIA, Intel and Waymo (Google / Alphabet) have repeatedly stated that the analysis of "collective experience" allows to improve the car autopilot, spreading the situations passed by individual consumers to the entire vehicle fleet through software updates. It is for this reason that NVIDIA, Intel and Qualcomm are convinced that the cars of the future will require powerful "cloud" systems and high-speed wireless communication channels.
As noted by Reuters , a group of companies led by Toyota is convinced that the automotive industry can adopt the principles of working with crypto-currencies. At least, the technology of distributed storage of a reliable chain of transactions that has been rolled out in this sphere will help to collect and process information on individual precedents reliably. In addition, Toyota is convinced that insurance companies are also interested in accessing the statistics of the behavior of individual drivers on the road. This will make the approach to the client individual and reduce the tariffs for disciplined drivers. The collection of telemetry data, some insurance companies are engaged now, but the technology blockchain will increase the reliability of storing such data.
Representatives of Toyota are convinced that the improvement of control algorithms for "robots" will go faster if you collect data from each vehicle.