We want information...information... information!!!
You won't get it!
By hook or by crook, we will.
Posted on 03/15/2024 8:49:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have a hunch that soon businesses will spring up to ‘cut the cord’ from one’s car to the Internet. Of course, once you need a data-link to start the engine (or whatever they force on us), then that won’t be an option.
My 1965 MG Midget?
You’re ok with that. Lucas electrics can’t charge a battery, let alone collect data.
Just like social media. Pass it off as a positive thing, make a game of it, shower you with the benefits of using it, and in the meantime, stick the knife in your back and twist it when you are not looking.
There's not a *smart* anything that is not 100% betrayal and surveillance.
Google Maps knows when you drive over the speed limit. I noticed it started doing that sometime last year.
It’s funny - I’m aware of the reputation but I’m the second owner and in 31 years never had a single problem with the electric. I’ve had to redo the brakes, leaf springs, cracked exhaust manifold, blown head gasket, rebuilt the SU carbs, replaced the radiator. I replaced the upholstery, steering wheel, gear shift knob, soft top and tonneau cover to get it back close to original…
No electric at all! Guess I was lucky.
Can you say, "hyperbolic"? I knew you could!
The headline reads like this is a universal truth. Come to find out it's only been proved true in some isolated cases from a very few manufacturers.
= Click-Bait
We want information...information... information!!!
You won't get it!
By hook or by crook, we will.
My favorite thing is restoring old machines from a hundred years ago - so my house is full functioning antiques. Other than my hundred plus year old Glenwood gold medal gas/wood stove, out kitchen and laundry appliances are all from the 1980s when I bought them - and I have a slew of musical instruments and audio equipment from the 50s 60s and 70s.. plus the heathkit diagnostic eq to help me do the diagnostics and repairs. I just keep them running. My wife wishes they would break so she could have a modern one. But I’m happy to save the money and not be spied on.
The exception is this iPhone and other computers and smart TVs so I’m just as vulnerable as everyone else.
I have a hunch that soon businesses will spring up to ‘cut the cord’ from one’s car to the Internet.
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I sure hope so! Over the last few years, I’ve had plenty of discussions with car sales folks about the surveillance systems in their cars.... and my answer has always been “nope... until you tear out the surveillance systems, I’m going to keep driving my pre-2007 vehicles.”
I want the same hack that I put into my Chev truck... a plug in piece under the steering column that disables the AFM (active fuel management) system that kept flipping the engine from 8 to 4 cylinders. Plug it in and the AFM is disabled and now I get better gas mileage and less oil consumption.... I want the plug and play ASS (active surveillance system) disabler!
There was a case of a missing wife in Colorado. They got the husband’s information from a company that went through his truck’s computer. I don’t recall if it was online or physically going through it. But it was crazy what they pulled from it. When each door was opened and closed, blinkers, brakes, speed. Even showed that he backed up 47 feet (or whatever) in his driveway at 3 am. Based on GPS and the number of times the gears rotated in his transmission. It wasn’t even that new of a truck - 2018 or something.
They still didn’t have enough evidence to bring him to trial though.
Car insurance should be based on accidents you caused. I do not want to pay for someone else’s bad record.
You’re cell phone is definitely listening to you. I talk to my relative as an example and I start seeing video suggestions in Youtube on the internet and thru their app I watch on Roku soon after the call.
Why 65 Willys is a rolling chassis with no battery so it’s ok.
I always liked that car.
Uh..turn off Google Maps?
From 4 days ago...
Buy a base trim.
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