So, I am buying hardware I can't use solely for the purpose of providing data to a for-profit company for free to improve its product for another generation of customers?
No, you're buying hardware you can use which has the added benefit of improving the product you're using over time using data collected from your hardware along with thousands of others'.
It's not free for tesla. The hardware cost is what tesla paid to obtain that data. The people that use the autopilot hardware effectively subsidise your car.
