> My final theory is that someone is paying them a lot of money for the data they collect for use in training their self-driving vehicle AI. In this case they w

> My final theory is that someone is paying them a lot of money for the data they collect for use in training their self-driving vehicle AI. In this case they would want to show you CAPTCHAs more frequently to collect more data to sell for more profit. That's an interesting thought. I hadn't really thought about it being a training set for self-driving AI but that would make sense given that all examples are from Google Street View nowadays.