The biggest problem I have is tracking that the government has access to. We're in a situation where the government knows everywhere your phone has been, and everywhere your car has been. I doubt we're far from the gov't being able to de-activate your car at will also. I would like to have privacy from corporations, but I really wish we'd keep the focus on privacy from our governments, since they have such ultimate p…
Kill switches are now required for cars produced after 2026. https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/biden-infrastructure-bil... It is for your safety. ;)
Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla
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#243I have a RAM 1500 that updates itself with new software over the air. Much to my surprise it works pretty well and happens quite often. Seeing as this is an FCA/Stellantis product I fully expected the first update to completely brick my system. Thank you Java for being older and more reliable than dirt.
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You'd probably have more success finding the external antenna and clipping the leads at the sharkfin.
Just make sure you do something, like use a resistor to ground the antenna lead, because I did that, and would still get connectivity at times. EG if the cell tower was very close. Was fine after I used a resistor to turn that power into mild heat.
If it is similar to eCall in VAG ECUs, then there might be internal antenna inside the ECU itself.
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#245Who wants to see my impression of an HN commenter? OK, here it goes: "I'm tired of Mozilla's agenda and politics!! They should only make a web browser!!"
OK? I don’t think that sounds like an HN commenter at all.
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Is this a US thing? I recently bought a reasonably high end Skoda (which I think would be made in the same factory as VW, SEAT etc). It has a big touch screen in the centre console, but that's really only used for the radio / media / phone calls etc. This is all non essential stuff and so I can deal with it being on a screen. Everything relating to driving is an old skool analogue control. A couple of things I don't…
For me controlling the radio using a touch screen is an issue - i cant take my eyes off the road, and using driving wheel buttons that require fiddling is not great either. I need buttons and dials that leverage muscle memory.
Volume should absolutely be a knob or, less ideally, a pair of buttons. But does anyone have a physical radio dial any longer? (Even my 1998 Toyota with no touchscreen I sold last year didn't.) I think at least one manufacturer was considering eliminating FM radio all together.
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#247Certain cars let you physically disable this. For example, the Tacoma has a "Data Communication Module" (DCM) that performs all of this and has a cell radio to phone home. There's a fuse in the fusebox you can pull to prevent the DCM from getting any power. Only side effect is the in-cabin microphone stops working and you can reconnect the fuse at any time.
It's as if the engineering team didn't want to develop a spying product and made a convenient way to disable it...
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#248Yes, and that is why I will never buy new unless in the contract I have; 1. No data harvesting 2. If I or anyone discovers any kind of data harvesting, at any time, I get a full refund of the original purchase price plus interest plus 2000 USD from the manufacture. If not received in 6 months, it double ever 6 months. But from what I understand, I heard due to Massachusetts "Right to Repair", all of that is turned of…
Of all the things that will never happen, this will never happen the most.
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Touch-screens can be updated later, meaning you can release the broken version first, then get it working after the money starts rolling in. Knobs would require they get it right the first time. The horror! I will never buy a car that forces me to navigate a menu to turn on my windshield wipers...
I'm "looking forward" to having manufacturers change the location of virtual buttons every few updates.
Android Auto has already changed its home row buttons three times since 2019..
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#250> Kia’s privacy policy reserves the right to monitor your “sex life,” Please tell me this is lawyer CYA boilerplate, or is there a way for the shocks to tell "if this van's a rockin', don't come a knockin'".
This reminds me of how my insurance app thinks I'm driving whenever I bounce my leg nervously.