I am sure this article has been shared before, however I wanted to have a look at this topic.
The articles short summary is this:
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed
I am currently driving a 2014 Ford Fiesta which just has a radio with a CD player and Bluetooth. I do not need more than that in a car.
The reason I am looking at all is that that the Fiesta does not belong to me and the friend owning it will be moving out in a bit, so I kinda need another one.
There seems to be one brand that is not as bad as the other ones (but still bad): Renault; mozilla’s review…
Maybe I will have a look at their cars.
What do you guys think? Stick to older used cars and not use an EV or look at which of the manufacturers have the least bad privacy policy?
Yeah that isn’t an option unless you want the dash to light up like a Christmas tree, your abs not to work, the stability/traction control to freak out and disable your accellerator, or cause an airbag fault, or cause the seatbelt pretensioners to fault.
You’re saying the airbag will deeply if I feed it a black feed from the cameras and silence from the microphones? Huh.
No, I am saying if you disable or tweak the sensors that feed the onboard telemetry system on a modern car which include sensors for the accelerator pedal position, vehicle speed, individual wheel speed sensors (for abs, traction control, and stability control), the car will probably freak out and enter limp mode.
If you screw with the stability or traction sensors, they can cause the airbags to not trigger properly or predictably. Remember, there are basic impact sensors for airbags but there are also angle sensors and accelerometers for rollover detection now. If you disable any of that, the car will not work properly.
Yeah, and I’m saying that those aren’t the sensors that we need to neuter. Namely the surveillance sensors are cameras, microphones, and seat sensors.
Basically all the things that they use to sell your sexual habits to the highest bidder.
They still get loads of telemetry from those other sensors.
Accelerometers don’t only get used for rollover. They also measure how you use the car.