... providing a near-constant stream of information on colony health in real time
What use is this information if we already know that pollution is the problem and that the pollution problem won't be solved?
This only yields an uninteresting sequel to the Spy Hard films: Spy Hard with a Sting
You're not from Europe, are you? The whole Digital Markets Act was made just because the GDPR is not enforced for large enough companies (and frankly, hardly enforced at all). And the GDPR is not enforced because the enforcement is left to agencies that are easily corrupted.
Also, the US has never been GDPR compliant, but the EU has made totally ridiculous deals with the US anyway. The first time such a deal was brought to court, we found out that the Irish Data Protection Agency (the agency set up for the enforcement) had zero law experts and zero IT experts.
, no LIDARs, and no RADARs, and working great.
No they don't. They might work great in ideal weather conditions. In fact, recent documentaries show that lots of European countries really don't like that the Dutch government accepted their "autopilot" system. Because if one EU country accepts a car system, it is automatically accepted in the entire EU.
The lack of serious sensors is one of the things that is seen as dangerous. Other manufacturers do use other sensors, and with good reason.
Also, the Tesla system has caused a quite some accidents where the driving assist function automatically switched off.
about costs simply weren't using the software bundles properly.
(emphasis mine) In other words: the pricing was changed to something that was ripping the customers off by default, and the pricing schemes are too complicated to be able to select the correct one. But the customer is to blame!
* UNIX is a Trademark of Bell Laboratories.