I'm saying exactly the opposite. I will never consider getting an EV as long as it's full-time tethered to the mothership and my car can be deactivated/bricked/broken remotely either on purpose or by accident. I want my car to be MY property, not a device obeying inputs from someone somewhere else.

And absolutely no surveillance built in. Until then I'll stick to gasoline cars.

A lot of gas cars do this too. With services like onstar and low rate data connections either via satellite or even lte etc.

Many modern cars are this way. Tesla is just egregious about it. Ford, Toyota etc can still do it.

Remember the remote start payment plan for Toyota?

https://www.thedrive.com/news/43329/toyota-made-its-key-fob-...

Or even the reports of hacking a cars canbus?

https://www.dmv.com/blog/can-your-car-be-remotely-hacked-523...

All that said though. I totally agree. I will never drive a car like this or one that tells me I need to update before I can drive.

And if I do get a computer car (at least one like a Tesla that runs something resembling a Linux or bsd kernel, then I would expect to be able to access that system just like the engine etc). It’s my property.

Even without the privacy issues, I want cars that are simple and have less tech.

The absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. Even so, there are documented security issues with most connected vehicles.

This data should not even be collected in the first place. Even just the collection is 1984-style.