• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean. Most modern cars have GPS and network capabilities. Just that allows them to track your travels and daily behavior.

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      Probably would vary depending upon the brand, but I wonder how hard it would be to disable the network. At some point would the vehicle refuse to operate without a network connection?

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        1 year ago

        Imagine getting lost in the middle of nowhere and your car refuses to start because it can’t get internet

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          That sounds like a feature to me. Gotta pay extra for that offline start capability. And if you don’t designate this far as your offline remote start car before hand you’re fucked.

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        Probably not, I’m sure there’s plenty of situations they wouldn’t have network connections, so we’d have prohably heard about it if it were na issue with existing cars.

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        I don’t think so. The risk of a PR disaster because a car refused to start, due to them not having a signal either due to an outage, or being underground, is too great.

        Car companies probably don’t want to deal with the headlines of “Man left stranded in parking garage after his car was unable to connect to the internet”, or “Woman marooned on mountainside because her car could not connect with the servers”.

        At least, not until connection technology is good enough, or connectivity ubiquitous enough that neither of those are big enough issues for most.

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        Some brands it’s easy.

        I know my Ford just has a data toggle. Turn it off and it stops sending and receiving data from the cloud.

        But stuff stops working when I do that. The traffic, and app stuff all need it I think. Gps has a toggle too but it just seems to turn off the map stuff.

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          What we want is to be able to direct the data, in standard protocols, to a server of our choosing. To be able to use apps of our choosing. No damn lock-ins.

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            1 year ago

            If they don’t get benefits from the data, why won’t spend money putting in the features

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              It probably need to be regulation. It’s not a space competition alone will work for. Very few consumers will choose one car over another due to privacy options.

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        At some point would the vehicle refuse to operate without a network connection?

        No doubt.