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Boojum's avatar

Horses have always had the ability to watch you pee from your seat, so it's perfectly acceptable to have cars videorecord it.

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marcus816's avatar

“[Vlad the Impala]… whose primitive electrical system will never narc on us,”

Ummm… unnecessary?

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DDB9000's avatar

And some people still hassle me big time for NOT having any kind of cellphone or stupidphone.

I'll have only my landline until I die.

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DDB9000's avatar

I just never had any need for a cell phone, and esepecially for a handhelp computer.

When I ride the bus, I have PAPER schedules with me, and while I know them fairly well I see lots of young people looking at their stupidphone to try ro find out where they are ane where they need to go.

I can look the the ENTIRE map at the same time, while they scroll, and scroll, and scroll and infinitum, and still often miss their stops!

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marcus816's avatar

Get a room, you two.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

But you know, TikTok is sharing our dance videos with China and that’s way more scary, right?

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Zyxomma's avatar

I'm learning to drive a 2012 Subaru. It's smaller than the Subaru that died at the end of our summer vacation, so it's easier for little me to learn in. I do miss the moon roof.

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Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

Just last month I drove my mother's 2020 Suburu with her across state. Plugging in my phone and setting up ApplePlay, I think it asked me if I wanted to share my contacts, etc. as part of the set up, and let me just share my apps.

My 2009 Ford's system has never played well with modern iPhones, and I have never been able to get texts to work with it. Apparently that was a good thing.

Either way, we need laws that prevent companies from taking our data. We really should make it a requirement that you op in to any data sharing, and that opt-in has to be renewed every 6 months or it stops.

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beb's avatar

If car manufacturers are going to sell MY data I deserve to get a cut if the proceeds since it is MY DATA, created in MY CAR! I'm thinking that if Apple can collect 30% of a download from their app store I should get 30% of whatever the car makers get from selling my data.

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

I bought the cheapest truck I could find in all of California in 2019, a new 2018 that they couldn't unload because it was so basic. It doesn't even have cruise or power anything other than steering, and sure as hell doesn't connect to the interwebs. Three more payments and it's mine!

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BeachLoafer's avatar

The moral of this story, kids, is read the fine print!!!

I drive a '21 Mercedes, which is connected to the mothership at all times. I'm fine with it reporting the status of the car, and have in fact avoided (more) costly repairs due to MB's telemetrics, but I severely limit what else it reports - it may take some drilling down on the menus, but the options to not record everything I do are there - use them!

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Birb-General of the US's avatar

All the more reason to keep my 2001 car. I suppose it might record data on how fast the spark plugs are firing at a certain time but that is about it.

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Kobayashi Marooned's avatar

My 2008 is looking better all the time.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

This is part of the reason I drive a 50-year-old car.

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marcus816's avatar

That would be a Cutlass SS, I’ll warrant!

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el duderino's avatar

I used to be able to connect my phone to my car stereo using an auxiliary cable. But GM did a software update that disabled that feature and now I can only connect with Bluetooth. I don’t have a choice but to share my data. Fuckers

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willi0000000's avatar

definitely EV Vlad . . . it would become Vlad II Electric Boogie Woogie.

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willi0000000's avatar

just another reason to wipe ALL the republicans out of government . . . if they keep the court and get big majorities in the House and Senate and get the Oval simultaneously we will all have to report for installation of our "Up Yours For Freedom" (UFFIES) electronic monitors.

they will report all bodily functions (plus location, velocity and criminal intent)

sex (reporting to your pastor and/or neighborhood busybody)

masturbation(see "sex")

pregnancy (local, state and federal law enforcement plus "sex")

drug use (see "pregnancy")

healthy food use percentage (sponsored by McD's)

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the UFFY will also serve as ATM, Debit chip, and will be used to monitor all cash transactions

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Darth Trad's avatar

I'm old enough to remember when big bizness didn't want to sell you blank cassette tapes as you would be stealing the bread out of their children's mouths.

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Uncle Milburn's avatar

But then how would I store the programs I wrote on a TRS-80?

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

Same with my VIC-20.

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Darth Trad's avatar

On punch-cards you Luddite!

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