It's good that it's open source then ;)

Good that autonomous driving companies won't pay me for my contribution to the software that underpins their R&D?

One perk of it being open source is that you can take your payment in "benefiting the world" instead of cash. You're given the platform to improve it if you want; expecting some other kind of compensation for addressing your own complaint doesn't seem realistic.

"My own complaint" is one on which the success of autonomous vehicles hinges. It's not an arbitrary critique at all -- all these things will be misclassified and mistreated unless explicitly included in the training process (until ML gets smarter). The fat tail strikes again.

"Benefiting the world" sounds great except we're embedded in a capitalist system for which the net gain on utility from this action is negative -- the super-corporations capitalizing on my unpaid work will further contribute to the economic inequality that beleaguers everyone who works for a wage.

There are more and more methods of getting funding for contributing to open source, for example https://opencollective.com/

All open source is not equal. Fetishizing "open source," without considering the use cases and who may profit from it, is not something I feel comfortable doing.

I'm not ragging on open source as a concept, just that this example particularly is a bad one for justifying its utility.

Yeah and in the car video on https://microsoft.github.io/AirSim/, they have the car driving on the wrong side of a barricade on a bus only lane. :(