from what i see people want to boast about using it as it makes them seem like early AI adopters, and they find random use cases for the product, rather than the other way round
why should ars technica have to publish grovelling apologies to satisfy their readers. it's not a tabloid.
and as it's obviously a HR issue both parties are restricted to what they can say, if they want to provide more details on their personal feeds and people are interested they can find out respectively.
we've done projectd with kinect sensors for fall prevention in hospitals. one con is that many people are uneasy if there's a camera-looking sensor pointing at their bed.
the fact that it can be easily modified OTA is a red flag enough that Tesla is pushing software out without the same level of testing hardware does. shipping a MVP in the hopes it doesn't' cause an accident isn't exactly best practice.