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?
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.
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
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.
“My fear is that selling this information to insurance companies is just the tip of the iceberg. Connecting one’s car to the cloud enables a whole new level of surveillance by God knows whom. And in some cases, you have no idea it is happening.”
And lets not forget that cars also have microphones for voice controls and phones...
FWIW an array of sites and videos claim to instruct owners how to physically disconnect and unpower the monitoring devices.
Not spending any serious time on it, but bet it wouldn’t be hard to put together a microboard (Arduino or similar) to feed it spurious telemetry data, and it’s likely someone has.
I have a hunch that if you have a car with OnStar, the best way to go might be pulling the fuse for that or finding some other way of disconnecting it. If it’s an older vehicle & you have no practical use for OnStar (like paying for the subscription) you may as well disconnect it. The company that built it already knows enough about it, except maybe for frequency of breakdowns.
Mine isn’t. I don’t turn those things on. I never get behind the wheel without speeding, so I’m not signing up for anything that monitors my driving. As for the people who did sign up, frankly if they’re upset about this they’re MORONS. What did they think was going to happen? “Please collect more data on me. Wait how dare you sell it!” Straight up dumb.