Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
by AmericanChopper on Sunday September 04, 2022 @09:33PM
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It’s very simple to find a high quality ICE vehicle that is not substantially networked to remote services, or at least that you can easily disconnect. I brought a brand new one very recently, nobody is able to remotely control the vehicle, and the only surveillance instruments in the car are the ones I choose to carry around with me.
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Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
by josephcsible on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:04AM
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What make and model?
Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
by aembleton on Monday September 05, 2022 @08:55AM
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Dacia Sandero would tick that box. I don't think the Toyota Yaris is connected either.
Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
by elif on Sunday September 04, 2022 @09:49PM
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Any modern car can be remote controlled by plugging a device into the port used by comma.io
If you're really worried about the agencies hijacking you to kill you, you're gonna need to buy vintage.
Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
by RocketOne on Sunday September 04, 2022 @10:25PM
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Not kill. Control. Like Tesla deleting features that the original owner paid for. Like BMW charging a monthly fee to activate features already built into the car. Like UI updates that are automatic and make options worse but you can't stop the updates.
Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
by AmericanChopper on Sunday September 04, 2022 @11:16PM
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Being harmed is also a concern. I don’t own any other products where a software bug or compromised system has quite the same potential to physically harm me.
But underlying that is the fact that there are no networked features that I personally want my car to have. So however small the risks (of both physical harm and being effected by bizarre networked car dark patterns), they are risks that I would be taking exclusively for the benefit of the manufacturer of the product for which I am supposedly the customer. As long as there is an acceptable alternative to such a product, I will always choose the alternative.