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Re:Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple W... by bell-cot on Thursday September 26, 2024 @10:34AM (#41658876)
Why would any of the decision makers want to do that? It's not like 99.9% of consumers appear willing to pay 10 cents more for an unconnected car.
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Re:Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple W... by squidgedcricket on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:13AM (#41659317)
The only way a connected car would be cheaper is if money is made from the data sent over the connection. Clearly that's the case right now.

Up-front NRE, per unit HW, perpetual cloud backend maintenance. There's a lot of cost to connect a car to the internet. It should be a luxury option that I can decline to have installed.

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Re:Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple W... by sroussey on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:52AM (#41659865)
Recalls that can be fixed with over the air updates is a large financial reason to connect cars to the internet.

Personally, I’d rather connect to my WiFi where I have control, but that’s a lot to ask for regular consumers.

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Re:Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple W... by barbazoo on Thursday September 26, 2024 @12:00PM (#41660001)
My Kia Niro is connected to the internet yet I can't OTA apply anything. Updates to the navigation data (~80GB) have to be done via USB and recall related updates have to get applied by the manufacturer. So I get 100% of the attack surface and ~0% of the convenience.
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Re:Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple W... by sroussey on Thursday September 26, 2024 @03:40PM (#41662370)
Oh god, that’s terrible!

I wonder how many years that will take. Five years?

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