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.
I’ll ride a mule first...
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.
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
And just like that, prices on used cars just skyrocketed.
Already happening.
Siri.....
Yeah. Right.
No matter what the patent application outlines, we will always put the customer first
And the "customer" is their advertisers. You, the "owner", are the product being sold.
Everybody’s going to have a surveillance profile. That’s why they’re building all the huge new “data centers.”
“Cars have microphones and people have all kinds of sensitive conversations in them. Cars have cameras that face inward and outward,”
bttt