Posted on 01/17/2022 8:07:13 AM PST by DoodleBob
Small wonder used cars are in high demand.
Car companies trying to get on the recurring revenue bandwagon.
Someday, some hacker will start 100,000 cars remotely.
“recurring revenue bandwagon”
Seems to be working for the pharmaceutical companies
Sort of related....
Actually, there is a feature on my new car that allows me to start it remotely. I think that a lot of new cars can do that. I don’t like it. And it is sold and a convenience.
If you can start the car remotely, then you can certainly turn it off remotely. Or it would be easy to configure it to shut the car off. Can you disable the car completely? Probably.
Third party app to override if your car is paid off. Put old style key in place. Or freshly dead person who turns off cars and it would stop. 2nd amend applies to non government jackasses too
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$80 a year is chump change compared to the annual rate of inflation for the cars themselves nowadays ... plus you don’t even need the subscription to start your car.
While you’re driving down the highway, the hacker behind you will pull your car over and take your car at gunpoint . . . or simply run your car off the road for fun.
Soon, a car will be a “service” you subscribe to (you will be nickled and dimed for every little thing) and not something you own.
Remember Cash-for-Clunkers”? I was criticized on FR at the time for saying that it was deliberate to get rid of the non-computerized vehicles and making us dependent on those who controlled the computers.
Seems to be working for the pharmaceutical companies
Yeah, just following the “cloud computing” craze.
Yup. Owning nothing. Being Happy. Being a good Party Member.
A question and then a couple of comments:
Since Lexuses are made by Toyota, will or do they have the same issues?
My wife’s Lexus 300 is 15+ years old. It and my getting gray time wise Honda Ridgeline have minimal if any electronic gear. Their doors can be unlocked or locked with the remote and the trunk on my wife’s Lexus.
We keep getting offers to buy our vehicles from smog station people, the national tire service place where we have both vehicles serviced, neighbors and people we don’t know.
One of our sons got an early inheritance of our OJ Simpson Bronco model. He has gotten offers to buy it off and on in the past decade. It recently passed the Ca. smog test, and he got 2 offers before he left the station. After it passed the smog test, he gets offers from strangers and people he knows and long term neighbors. The little year sticker on the rear license plate going out 2 years must be the “tell”!
Can we get the global warming crowd on this. It's bad for greenhouse gas emissions. Some white racist global terrorist could start all the cars and set the polar ice cap to having a meltdown and drown the swamp.
Remotely = through a phone app. I should have been clearer.
“Someday, some hacker will start 100,000 cars remotely.”
Start them all at once, in garages, no killer vapors, silently run heat or a/c. Kill battery.
Then all discharged in the morning and charge stations with lines a mile long !! Or stuck in garage.
So, if you don’t have the service hackers can’t remote start your car?
As a solar energy hound, I am worried about backdoor upgrades to inverters that are like sleeper cells. Wait for the time when the grid goes down or internet goes out and the inverter become a brick. aka run code to permanently disable as in the time of war and/or invasion.
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