Between Tesla Motors’ automobiles and SpaceX’s rockets, Elton Musk’s engineers just have to be getting something right. In part, SpaceX’s success in landing their first stage rockets is due to analysis of telemetry data. You can see some of the data from their launch vehicles on the live videos and there is surely a lot more not shown.
An article in MIT Technology Review provides similar insights in how Tesla came from behind in autonomous vehicle operation by analyzing telemetry from their cars. Since 2014 their Model S received an increasing number of sensors that all report their data over the vehicle’s always-on cellular channel. Sterling Anderson of Tesla reported they get a million miles of data every 10 hours.
http://hackaday.com/2016/06/09/data-...why-arent-you/
Data Logging; Everyone’s Doing It, Why Aren’t You?
14th June 2016, 13:45
Data Logging; Everyone’s Doing It, Why Aren’t You? 
