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Kill switches are now required for cars produced after 2026. https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/biden-infrastructure-bil... It is for your safety. ;)
Of course, that it won't be disabled by crooks and used for crimes like kidnapping people.
We need to stop being fearful of each other and start becoming fearful of our overlords.
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…
The problem is that the private companies tracking you can be compelled (if they don't voluntarily) give up your tracking data to the government. Stopping government tracking starts with stopping private industry tracking, as the latter is happy to give it away/sell the data or can be forced to by law.
Yes, of course data that goes to the corporations gets scooped up by the government.
But we need to stay laser focused on the main goal of maintaining privacy from our government, which may include efforts at privacy from corporations.
This article doesn't go into any benefits to the driver/user, if available. With all the cameras and microphones in cars these days they can at least send the insurance companies all the data when an accident occurred. Were you on the phone? Driving the speed limit? Have your seat belt on? Braking hard to avoid (or cause) an accident? Heck, give me a monthly riding report with information such as how fast I accelerat…
that sounds like a nightmare to me and should have to be opted into, I would never purchase a car with that. I'll just get a motorcycle and risk my life.
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Auto margins are ridiculously thin, and if a manufacturer can trim 17 cents off a car’s manufacturing cost by removing a button, they usually will.
Your post under says margins of 6%? 17 cents over a 6% margin on a $30,000+ purchase would be like McDonalds charging for extra salt on their fries. I’d guess it’s an ease of design and manufacturing decision when you can eliminate so many buttons so easily.
Aren't they? I had a vague impression it happened. And of course, some McDonalds' locations charge you something absurd for an extra ketchup packet.
A lot of people are making comments about defeating the telemetry, but it's not just about selling ads this time. This is about actual surveillance and (eventually) control, and the governments of the world will make this a requirement, and make circumvention of it as illegal as copyright infringement. In the US, the government will throw up it's hands and say it's not us; it's the "free" market, and this must be wha…
just wait until insurance companies demand access to your telemetry or they triple your rates.
I don't particularly like it, but it's something I'll just have to live with.
Certain 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 spy…
In the process you may lose some functionality like some speakers, the radio, wireless android auto, microphone, etc.
Note that this is all based on this source material. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categor... I haven't dug too much into the methodology, but it seems like it's done based on privacy policies rather than actually looking into the car telemetry traffic. It's also written in a very caaual and sensationalist "omagad" tone that doesn't serve well the seriousness of the topic or findings
Thanks. I read the original article and conspicuously absent is the actual mechanism of the data collection that is occurring here. Some of the claims seem barely believable. Is data exfiltrated from the phone, via some kind of data access loophole in Android Auto / Car Play? Are the microphones in vehicles actively listening to conversations and shipping them off for analysis? Or is this all purely hypothetical (i.e…
All data that they can acquire will be acquired because data can be sold, leading to higher quarterly profits. There are almost no other considerations.
Certain 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 spy…
lol - if they were only that altruistic. Toyota doesn't make the tech, they buy modules from suppliers and integrate the tech. Better hope someone doesn't come out with a fancy super module that has everything integrated because there will be no disabling it as soon as that happens :/ Don't forget Toyota was the manufacturer that was going to charge a monthly subscription just for the key fob (!) to work until they g…
I was just thinking about how to find and disable all the microphones in a car and realized that, with software, any speaker can be used as a microphone, so the logical conclusion is that you'd have to disable all the speakers as well.
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Not to mention the occasional automated drive into stationary objects. Guess that's partly why they have the "best in class safety tech".
You don’t have to enable self driving.