News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare. Parent comment

Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by brandonagr2 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @11:13AM (#37406342)
If you want best in class safety tech and no dealer markups, you can just order a Tesla online
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by hoot on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @11:30AM (#37406590)
I’m not an Elon hater but Tesla is the worst offender on Mozillas privacy study.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by mytydev on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:07PM (#37407139)
The report specifically says Tesla is not the worst btw
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by redwasp on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:36PM (#37407530)
Surprising, since Mozilla's article(https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...) does place them dead last, right behind Nissan. Granted, it'll be hard not to buy a car on that list!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by mytydev on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:37AM (#37418024)
Yeah, that's interesting and it seems the report contradicts itself. They are indeed last on the list referenced, but when diving into their details for Tesla it says "So, how is Tesla at privacy? Well, they aren't the worst car company we reviewed"
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by r2_pilot on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @11:24AM (#37406509)
Not to mention the occasional automated drive into stationary objects. Guess that's partly why they have the "best in class safety tech".
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by cortesoft on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @11:42AM (#37406748)
You don’t have to enable self driving.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by r2_pilot on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @03:29PM (#37409998)
As much as they charge for it, I would want to use it if I had a Tesla. But since I have severe trust issues with Tesla, I would never* buy an electric car from them anyway. * at least for the next 5 years, probably longer. I'm just glad I live far away from the places self-driving cars are common, for now.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by FireBeyond on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @07:36PM (#37412858)
“Best in class” safety tech…

No, Teslas have a specific safety rating.

In the Luxury Sedan segment with the same safety rating are 13 other vehicles.

In the Luxury SUV segment there are 19.

“In a high safety class” is accurate, but there’s nothing in those ratings to say the Tesla is the safest of them.

[ Parent | on HN ]