Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies - LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly.
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I think its time for brainslug to branch out from attaching itself to Amazon devices.
I seem to recall a device to attach to voice assistant like Amazon Echo/Alexa so that it speaks random gibberish, preventing these devices from listening in to their immediate surroundi g correctly, thus blocking the correct trigger word or any conversation to be listened on for that matter - we need that but for cars.
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As an auto mechanic, I always want to puke when I hear something about new cars.
If I don’t have complete control over my car, then I’m not interested in such junk.
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I wonder if you can remove those things. Are you going to breach some kind of contract?
This should be integrated with the onboard entertainment system, right?
Or can you at least opt out?
Is there really no way to forcibly disable internet access in a new vehicle? I doubt the option is given by the manufacturer, but is there nothing that can be removed or disabled by oneself or a mechanic?
It will break stuff, but yeah cars a have a SIM somewhere in them now. You can remove it if you want to, but the car won’t like it.
But the telemetry data is still there. If you return the car to the dealership for any sort of maintenance, they’ll be able to retake the data that was not uploaded through cellular data?
Until they adopt eSIM.
We need a custom OS for your car
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I’m not sure, it probably depends on where you take it and how much storage the manufacturer puts in the computers. Most shops I’m familiar with don’t pull your telemetry when you bring it in, but thats not all shops.
Unfortunately this is much more difficult as it can be locked out through certification, and other means such as onboard computers which allow the vehicle to even operate.
It’s a bit like trying to remove ME from an Intel CPU, you can’t if you want to initialize the thing on boot.
The MotorTrends article says that this patent is a far cry from a sign that they intend to implement it, rather, patents like these are often just used to protect new ideas. If that’s the case, then while we should pay attention to this, I don’t think this alone is cause for red alert.