I can't imagine that working well for latency-sensitive applications... like self-driving cars.
your car is doing nothing for most of it’s lifetime. renting it out via turo or as a taxi makes sense.
It would be worth running the numbers on this, it is more viable to just take taxi rides for a year, compared to how much would payments and potential income net from a scheme like this. Of course if it ever sees the light of the day.
A lifetime that will be massively shortened by it running as a taxi 20 hours a day.
Question is: are there enough high latency distributed workloads to sell?
This is an unreliable spot instance at best, with none of the features one can normally attach to an instance (like storage, managed databases, ...). How fast can its Internet be? Will owners need to pay for Starlink too? (What about when parked indoors?)
It would have to be cheaper than all regular hosting options by a long shot for anyone to consider this. A very niche, low-paying market, in other words.
The point is it's just a way to use free compute that's sitting around, if you want to sign up to use it you'd obviously make sure it was in wifi range