Posted on 04/05/2025 7:54:24 AM PDT by george76
Tucker Carlson caused a stir in a recent interview that may cause some Americans to do a double take on the vehicles they are driving.
During an interview with automotive designer and internet personality Casey Putsch last week, Tucker mentioned that he is a lifelong fan of Chevrolet trucks but felt he had to “immediately” sell his latest one after spotting a disturbing message on the car’s dashboard.
“I bought a truck last year…A Chevy truck, which I’ve always had, and I was at a gas station, he said. “And all of a sudden at a gas station, it says, ‘Stop, we’re downloading information from the internet.'”
“While you were driving?” Putsch asked.
“No, I was stopped,” Tucker replied. “I sold the car immediately. I brought it back and sold it.”
“They want all your data to provide to insurance companies to wreck your life, I’m sure,” Putsch responded.
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Tucker last year bought his 1987 Chevy Silverado and revealed the car’s lack of technology was a prime appealing factor to him:
“There are no electronics in this. There’s no air conditioning, there’s no radio, and there’s no way for the government to turn off my engine if I’m disobedient,” he said at the time.
“So that’s what I drive. I like it.”
Oh, Tucker is such a drama queen. They weren’t going to give the data to insurance companies. The car was just downloading updated GPS software for more accurate potential future drone strikes.
Historically, Europe has had much better protections for individual privacy than we have here in the US.
The car takes everything from your phone. And it cannot be deleted. You can “erase” it so future drivers cannot access it easily but it’s still there. All your numbers, text messages, phone calls … wouldn’t be surprised if it recorded your conversations too.
“Cellular connection. Not wifi.”
Wrong... The last few years they are indeed by default connected to WiFi and the universal “Internet of Things”. In fact most insurance companies now offer discounts for teenagers first getting insurance. They provide a device that plugs into older non internet cars that connects the OBD2 port to WiFi and the Internet of Things so that they can monitor driving habits in real time...
My wife’s 2024 Hyundai Tucson hybrid also does software updates. Modern cars are highly computerized and updates are as necessary as they are on cellphones. This technology could be used for nefarious purposes, however, I am not yet paranoid.
I have a 2005 A4 Avant I’m keeping for most of these reasons, plus you can no longer get a V6 and manual transmission.
“It was likely a wi-fi connection at the gas station, where if he pulled out of range, the download would be incomplete.”
Cars do not connect via wifi. They connect via a cellular.
“It was likely a wi-fi connection at the gas station, where if he pulled out of range, the download would be incomplete.”
Absolutely. And there are now even agreements with auto manufacturers made for marketing promotions to this effect. It was probably the gas station downloading promotional data.
It is now a whole market to advertise this way through Automobiles.
You used bluetooth to relay information to your computer. So you were connected via cellular service on your phone. I can place my phone close to my home laptop and receive calls and text messages on my laptop that were directed to my phone. But I have it set up to do that. Your phone won’t automatically communicate with your car, you have to turn on the bluetooth feature.
Yes, but the screen can “say” anything...but once a connection to a computer system is made so many other things can be done.
Seems quaint now doesn’t it?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D7YvAYIJSSZY&ved=2ahUKEwiWw878ncGMAxX_FTQIHUCRJwoQwqsBegQICxAF&usg=AOvVaw0SkCtX7L8ptVKRCvB-88NN
Once again wrong... It is absolutely both...
“I used the Bluetooth connection on my phone to play music on my car computer system controlled car speakers...next thing I knew all of the phone numbers I call from my phone were displayed on the computer screen in my car. I did not tell the cars computer to make a call. Once a connection is made one can never know what information is available to the cars computer or what any other outside system can access.”
When you made the connection you selected both music and data to be transmitted.
"Does Onstar have wifi system? Yes, when traveling in a car with Onstar, you can connect to the internet via the Onstar wifi network."
https://guide-onstar.com/does-onstar-have-wifi/
GPS connection is free. Cellular is not. Your car can compute mileage and location based on GPS. It cannot upload on it.
It is not necessary for a device to have an explicit or obvious internet connection.
I am involved in sleep issues, and the medical prescription is the use of one of these CPAP machines. This is a device the size of a desktop radio, it records how long you sleep and how many apnea episodes/hour you have while you are connected to it. Supposedly, it stores that information on an SID card with you periodically take into your doctor so he can look at your log book, as it were. I have been informed that that is not to bring the card in because of the device has a cell phone in it that calls up the doctor, or gets called by the doctor, and from where he can see your sleep log book. The implication, as far as the discussion we are having on this thread, is that a device need not have an explicit or obvious internet connection to be connected to the internet.
“I remember reading about that problem and the companies saying that it’s rare but they will fix it. Haven’t heard anything since.”
Yes, for the most part they did. They had some internal frequency matching problems. You don’t want any frequency matching. So they had to iron out that problem to prevent it and harden them from similar external frequencies.
Need spare diodes for the alternator.
Every time I read the word "DOGE" guess what happens?
“How long until they require carmakers to report politically incorrect speech to the authorities? “
They won’t have to. They have already given authorities backdoor access to it all.
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