If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare

Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by foxyv on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:46PM (#37407649)

This is the exact reason I bought an automatic. I had a 1994 BMW 318is that I loved, but I spent probably a couple thousand hours on the 91 freeway in southern California pushing the clutch in and out. The BMW "sporty" clutch was a leg workout and a half. The return spring was super stiff. Sometimes I would play a game to see if I could stay in first and just let my lead distance increase enough to not have to stop at all, but it pissed people off so bad.

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Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by mlrtime on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:24AM (#37417377)

This is actually how you're supposed to drive in traffic.

Give more space to the car in front of you and try to stay at a constant speed. You will see truckers do this a lot.

It also is much better for your car and mental health. You don't need to accelerate to a complete stop over and over.

I do this every time I'm in very bad traffic (Think inching along and coming to a complete stop multiple times).

However about 10% of the time I get some idiot behind me that thinks that I'm going to slow so they speed around me just to come to a complete stop 2 seconds later.

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Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by grvdrm on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:04AM (#37418311)

I love crawling in traffic in 1st. Totally agree.

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Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by foxyv on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @12:54PM (#37484160)

I tried it once or twice. It was great for the first minute or so, until the lady in the car behind me started honking, screaming, revving her engine, and pretending like she was going to ram my bumper. People HATE when I try to reach average traffic speeds instead of just cramming my car as close to the one in front of me as I dare.

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