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Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted by elif on Sunday September 04, 2022 @09:49PM (#32719652)
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 (#32719831)
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 (#32720121)
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.

Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted by natch on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:03AM (#32722048)
>Like Tesla deleting features that the original owner paid for.

If you think this has happened, I believe you are mistaken. But I'm open to hearing evidence.