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I've never had a driver's licence, lived in a zillion countries; don't think I could do that in America though.
Over half of New York City households are car-free. That jumps to 3/4 in Manhattan. Millions of American households don’t have a car, but you rarely hear about it as a viable option.
I ripped the wifi / onstar and gps antennas out of my 2020 Chevy Bolt the day after I bought it. Took me a couple of hours since the access was awful, but that's one time pain. No issues since, and I have a phone I use to drive the head unit so there was no need for those antennas to even exist.
I got a tesla home charger and it had a unnecessary wifi AP that kept showing up in my house. So I figured, I would stop this.
Opened it up, and disconnected the wifi antenna mmcx connector.
Nope, seemed when unplugged, it would switch to an onboard antenna for the wifi module.
so I reconnected a dummy load antenna to the wifi module.
and it still used the onboard antenna.
at that point, I gave up.
I think there might have been a possibility of downgrading the firmware to an older version that could disable wifi, but I didn't try to find it.
I believe this kind of thing happens with onboard cellular, wifi and bt. They are more resilient to degraded or disconnected antennas than you think.
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Ok stop with the panicking. What's wrong with GPS in vehicles? If it's not connected to the internet, there is no issue. What's wrong with playing music from the phone on Bluetooth or Aux? Did you also know you can ride a horse instead of a car? Bluetooth and WiFi isn't running if you turned them off. Bluetooth also isn't really used for tracking unless someone is looking for you or you're part of some service like A…
If it's not connected to the internet, there is no issue. It's connected to the Internet. Every car has a SIM card now.
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Because as soon as you leave a major metropolitan area, not having a car is almost a nonstarter.
It's the same in Europe, but people pushing an agenda don't talk about that either.
In places like Vegas, even on days with great weather, trying to WALK 2-3km in residential areas is a nightmare.
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I integrated SecOC on some ECU's at work. I hate myself for it. I frigging hate what they're doing with this. I think it's going to make cars less repairable, less modifiable. It's a horrible horrible stupid initiative in the name of "cybersecurity".
I understand notionally where they were going, but it all sort of went off the deep end somewhere along the line. A concern that someone buying some "mileage blocker" or whatever other shady device off of AliExpress might be vulnerable to the device steering their car into a wall is actually quite a valid one, but of course the solution is some overcomplicated AUTOSAR nightmare that doesn't solve for key provisioning…
As an aside, I checked out your GitHub. Cool projects, the vag flashing tool looks super useful, might actually give it a spin in sive development projects.
I thought about getting a traditional navigator to avoid even relying on phone navigation. Well, of course all the Garmins and Tomtoms available now have "built-in wifi for updates" and often BT for phone notifications too. Sure, I could just not configure either but what if I want a navigator _without any radios_ and with controlled updates via SD card. Maybe a dedicated Android phone in the car with offline OpenStr…
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Oh man. Logging insane average speeds and ludicrous acceleration during rush hour. Deliciously tempting idea.
A data scientist will simply filter out impossible data when conducting an analysis
as a professional diesel mechanic for a small chain of midwest shops, this "telematics" feature is on long-haul trucks as well as tractors (john deer is notorious for using it to send mail marketing about services.) generally its not hard to disable. - identify the telematics module in your car - pull the fuse (not always an option, sometimes this disables bluetooth) - alternatively: identify the 1-2 SMC connectors o…
It didn't work - there was an on-module antenna that it switched to. Might not have worked as well, but it did work and the wifi access point still showed up.
On the other hand, some cars have a self-contained telematics module like you said and you can just unpower the whole thing.
I remember looking at a ford owners manual for a 2019. The fusebox section had a fuse with description "Telematics control unit - modem." I assume you can just pull that fuse.
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> The CAN traffic is unencrypted. It was pretty easy to MITM this module with a cheap arm Linux board And you didn't poison their databases and statistics with fake data?? OMG, I'm thinking of buying one of these cars just for this opportunity! (No, I'm not.)
Oh man. Logging insane average speeds and ludicrous acceleration during rush hour. Deliciously tempting idea.
My 2025 Mazda Miata has a CAN connected Telematics Control Unit that sends a bunch of data to Mazda on ignition off. Among this data is acceleration and velocity data along with coordinates sampled for where you were. It is also used as a gateway for the Mazda app to start your car, query your vehicle's tire pressure, etc. It is claimed that you can opt out of this by calling Mazda and being persistent. The CAN traff…