Posted on 09/19/2024 5:34:27 AM PDT by george76
Some savvy lawyer will have a field day on this eventually. It is clearly a violation of the constitution and the reasonable expectation of privacy in one’s vehicle is long standing precedent.
I’ve owned 8 fords, 6 I bought new. I will never buy another one.
I took my 2017 Expedition in for a water pump replacement. $1500. The truck has four pages of features I’ll never use. It’s so complex that I don’t want to change something as simple as a water pump. Changing the transmission filter cost $750. There’s no dip stick so you have to capture the fluid, measure it, and put back in the same amount. Ridiculous. Oh, and it has all kinds of satellite enabled features. Why? It has an “infotainment” system. I want to go from one place to another. I don’t need or want entertainment and if I did, I’m sure my phone could provide it. Vehicles are so out of touch with what I, the market, want it’s ridiculous. OH, I paid $17000 for something that cost five times that when new. Someone took one hell of a beating on it. When the first big item fails, I’ll junk it.
I looked at a Mavrick. The only model with a naturally aspirated engine is a hybrid. I’m not buying anything with a lithium battery. It has three cooling systems, the engine, the battery controller and the battery. That’s three times the failure rate. And, again, I can’t work on it.
My next truck will be at least a twenty-year-old model, and I’ll rebuild whatever it needs. I’ll spring for a new interior.
This is why I like my fleet of 25+ year old vehicles. They’re not full of electronic garbage, and the throttle and steering linkages are mechanical.
Sorry, wrong. You have no privacy. All newer vehicles spy on you. If your phone is connected to your vehicle for the convenience of handsfree driving, it’s recorded. Where you go, how fast you go, and all around driving habits are recorded. Anything you say in your vehicle may be recorded. Most new vehicles have a wi-fi antenna for transmission purposes.
I’ll ride a mule first...
“This is why I like my fleet of 25+ year old vehicles. They’re not full of electronic garbage, and the throttle and steering linkages are mechanical.”
Same here. The foolish rich who like to show off their new shiny status toys can go right ahead. In the end the joke is on them.
I am amazed at the number of people who have given up their information willingly just to buy a product online and such. I don’t even give out my phone number at stores when they ask.
We are being track everywhere we go. License plate readers, cell phones, hundreds of cameras between your house and any destination, every purchase you make using a card, etc... Our ancestors lived in an open country where you could come and go as you please and the genie is out of the bottle and will never be put back in.
The dumbing down of our country is coming home to roost.
Never buy a Ford.
So much for front and back seat privacy.
My 2008 Nissan Frontier and 2016 F150 should outlast me. I’m counting on it. If I have to rebuild a motor etc., fine. No new trucks for me.
Google has been doing this for years, just pay them to use their patent.
This really sucks, and obviously it’s been going on for a longer time (note the OnStar reference) than most of us imagine.
But, it could have its benefits if it could be enabled or disabled (mostly disabled, haha), and the status made obvious by an obvious warning when you’re traveling in an unfamiliar location.
Mostly, though, this is sci-fi level dystopian.
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HOW MANY ADS TELL US NOT TO “DRIVE DISTRACTED”???
I LOVE MY OLD IRON
Like Crows the species has been brainwashed into collecting and showing off new “shiny stuff” to attract mates and societal display status. They can’t live without them because the TV and internet told them they can’t live without them. They will do anything including trample over each other to be the first to own new shiny stuff. Their subconscious is very easily manipulated.
Base model Gladiator, 2022 is what I got.
And Thankfully, Stellantis was shipping some of them without the Telematics module, so I guess they programmed all the trucks to be able to operate without the module.
I yanked the anntenae wire, and it complained about lack of connectivity, but was still transmitting Data to Stellantis. Yanked the Telematics module and it operates as if I didn’t but it’s not sending any data anymore. That combined with a Chip that allows me to shut off all the stupid nanny features like Auto park and stop start, and it’s about the same as my older cars
They do this because it is an extra revenue stream, and they haven’t been called out on it to the point where it hurts the wallet.
And just like that, prices on used cars just skyrocketed.
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