Wanna Help Self-Driving Cars? Turn on Your Phone's Camera

If you drive for a living, you're likely worried about what self-driving technology will do to your livelihood, and for good reason. But if you're a "can't-beat-'em-join'-em" type, and figure you might as well make a few bucks helping ease the inevitable into existence, just download Payver. It's an app that pays you a few pennies for every mile you drive, if you're willing to point your phone's camera at the road and share what it records. Payver is the work of Lvl5, a new startup focused on building the maps self-driving cars will need to navigate safely. Detailed, digital maps are widely considered an essential addition to the sensors these vehicles carry, an extra source of information to complement the cameras, radars, and lidars scanning the road.