Re:Software is eating the car
by LinuxBender on Thursday June 10, 2021 @12:39PM
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I'm with you. I will not buy a vehicle of any kind that is sending telemetry or tracking without my express written consent. This includes ICE cars made after 2018 that may have ODB3 and send GPS, emission, speed and other data to 3rd parties. I accept that I will be paying a premium to keep older vehicles running. I am about to donate my old truck to a charity and will get a less old truck after I leave California.
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> This includes ICE cars made after 2018 that have ODB3 and send GPS, emission, speed and other data to 3rd parties.
I googled for this and could find no info. Please give a reference for this claim.
Re:Software is eating the car
by mardifoufs on Thursday June 10, 2021 @01:23PM
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> > This includes ICE cars made after 2018 that have ODB3 and send GPS, emission, speed and other data to 3rd parties.
> I googled for this and could find no info. Please give a reference for this claim.
I can't even seem to find any reference to odb 3 existing at all in the first place. So yeah any link would be very much appreciated
I'd assume they meant OBD3
http://straighttalkautomotive.com/articles/have-you-heard-of...
It's mostly about surfacing the codes via a screen in the car instead of having a generic check engine light and needing an external scanner.
As far as I can tell, it was never mandated. Most posts about it are from ~2011.
Re:Software is eating the car
by LinuxBender on Thursday June 10, 2021 @01:22PM
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In fact all the links to forums discussing this appear to have been wiped from Google and Bing. Perhaps this topic is off limits for now. I can still find the older articles talking about privacy concerns, but the forums where people were explaining how to disable it have vanished.