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Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

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Re: Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

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Post by UltraSane »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #277
UltraSane wrote: post #194

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and has repeatedly made racist statements and amplified racially bigoted conspiracy theories and likes eugenics and runs companies which have set a record for the highest number of complaints about racial discrimination and bigotry in its workplaces and bought an entire social media platform solely so he and people with his ideologies could spew bigotry without having their accounts deleted and, uh, came from a very…

and seems intent on recreating apartheid in the US.

Re: Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

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Post by Dylan16807 »

razakel wrote: post #107
zekyl314 wrote: post #92

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Exactly, and more and more places are removing cash as a payment option :(

Cash handling isn't free, and for smaller businesses might actually end up being more expensive than accepting electronic payments.

Handling cash isn't free, but $0.30 + 3% or whatever is also a significant distance from free.

Re: Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

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Post by crimsontech »

phpnode wrote: post #310
aniviacat wrote: post #288

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The car probably doesn't have perfect knowledge of speed limits across Europe.

The car reads the speed limit signs too, they don't just rely on GPS.

The signs also seem to take priority over GPS, I was on a road with a 50mph speed limit tonight and the car read something it thought was a 20mph speed limit sign. I have the beeps disabled but it still displays the red 20mph sign on the dash to let me know it thinks I'm breaking the law.

Re: Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

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Post by Dylan16807 »

dmitrygr wrote: post #272
addaon wrote: post #186

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I'm sure it's not great, but deer mucus is a bit of an extreme description.

I never learned to properly touch type, i have my own method, somehow, which uses two fingers of the left hand and three of the right. Spacebar being pressed too soon or too late is, sadly, common :(

Proper touch typing doesn't fix that issue.

Re: Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

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Post by bdamm »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #235
bdamm wrote: post #134

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Some brands take software very seriously. This isn't an "entire industry" problem. My experience is pretty small; I've owned the same Tesla Model 3 LR for the last 6.5 years, and the software has been pretty much solid the entire time. There was briefly a problem with echos when I called land lines using the bluetooth and my iPhone, but that problem eventually went away - not clear if it was because the iPhone change…

> Some brands take software very seriously. > Tesla It's really hard to take this claim seriously about a car company that programs its self-driving system to disengage if it detects what it thinks is a likely crash, so said company can then tell investigators, regulators, juries, and the public that "the car wasn't in self-driving mode when it crashed." "I'm not touching her, Mom. THE STICK is touching her!" ...and…

We were talking about the fundamental experience of driving the car. If you want to pick at the features that the Toyota can't have, then sure, but you might as well complain about it not being able to fly.

My personal experience of the FSD function is that it works as its supposed to; it handles the mundane tasks of driving while I look around, and it's easy for me to interject when I feel I need to, which is almost never. That's what I wanted and that's what they delivered. It was not so good earlier, yes including phantom braking, but it's very good now.

Re: Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

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Post by bdamm »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #208
mdasen wrote: post #192

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> electric-drivetrain with onboard gasoline generator Generally speaking, it's more efficient to power a car using a series-parallel hybrid system than an electric drivetrain with generator (series hybrid) while not really being any more complicated. In a series hybrid (electric with generator), you're losing energy converting the rotational energy into electric energy. It's better to use the engine's output to power…

> Automatic Emergency Braking is going to be required in the US in 2029 (detecting frontal crashes about to happen and automatically braking, including pedestrian detection). I'm never going to want to drive a car that has that.

My car has AEB and it's great. I'll never drive another car without it. Why not take the energy out of the impact? Humans aren't perfect, and even less so as we age.

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Post by brikym »

embedding-shape wrote: post #43
nurple wrote: post #5

> Even after the modem is removed, if you connect your phone to the car via Bluetooth then the car will use your phone as an internet connection and send all the same telemetry data back to Toyota. However, if you use a wired USB connection then it does not do that (see the discussion here and elsewhere), so I exclusively use CarPlay via USB. The problem with this is that both carplay and android auto capture their o…

And once you've gotten rid of Google and Apple, your telecom company tracks you, your CC payments help track you and even cameras in public do. It's hard to not want to throw your hands in the air screaming "whatever" when almost everything you use in public is somehow used to track you either as you move around, or in the future.

A friend used to work in ad tech years ago. The telecoms sell real time location data to digital billboard companies which are targeted at whoever is nearby. It's basically minority report. I can definitely imagine they're now using visual processing and face recognition on the billboards.

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HenryBemis wrote: post #189
foresto wrote: post #183

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> Government leaders will never give up their pipeline of knowing everything about everyone. Then let us hire different leaders into government. Public servants, not overlords.

If you have noticed, every independent candidate almost never gets elected. Vast majority of those who say they will "change the country to the better" either never get elected or are ousted early on. And those who stay change their tune. I fear that only blackmail-able people with the potential to win elections, get the support, so that they are beholden to someone who ultimately gives them the job (e.g. funding the…

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Re: Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

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Post by bdamm »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #146
bdamm wrote: post #134

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Some brands take software very seriously. This isn't an "entire industry" problem. My experience is pretty small; I've owned the same Tesla Model 3 LR for the last 6.5 years, and the software has been pretty much solid the entire time. There was briefly a problem with echos when I called land lines using the bluetooth and my iPhone, but that problem eventually went away - not clear if it was because the iPhone change…

Tesla takes software very seriously, but for their goals not yours.

This is just fearmongering trope. You can imagine whatever you like, but there's no evidence that they're anything other than a car and technology company that wants to sell lots of its product.
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