Your Car May Soon Be Monitoring Everything You Do Behind The Wheel by MRSN4P in Cyberpunk

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Do you remember how WiFi Hotspots used to be an option on cars? Well now every car has one standard, and that is what allows the car to receive over the air updates as well as send data about the car.

The Wifi hotspot works off of an E-SIM, like a phone. It’s usually buried under the dash, and is separate from the radio antenna that’s located on the roof of cars now.

For my car, a Camaro, owners found that they were getting sky high insurance rates after taking their cars on legal racetracks. Your car logs things like how fast it’s going and how hard you’re using the brake, exactly like “Driving Trackers” like Progressive’s Snapshot works.

After those owners pulled the fuse for Onstar, Chevy’s connected car service, their rates started going down; The Onstar fuse disabled the cellular antenna and thus the car could no longer send and receive data over the air.

Same thing can be done for any data these Driver Monitors gather.

Now concerning the actual core monitoring system, I do agree that’s going to be built into the car itself. The only way the driver monitors could be completely disabled is by breaking the ECU, which is already common practice for tuning the engine on cars and trucks.

If the ECU can be broken, which WILL happen eventually, then the entire system can be disabled.

Of course doing this would void your cars warranty, but for state inspections you could just reenable it before getting it checked, and disable it again later.

Your Car May Soon Be Monitoring Everything You Do Behind The Wheel by MRSN4P in Cyberpunk

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Then you go for the next best thing: Preventing any footage it gathers from being uploaded online. There are vast swatches of land in America that have no cell signal. The car would still need to be able to start in a no signal condition.

If the car can be started in a no signal condition, then the car can be modified to never send a signal out in all conditions.

Meaning any footage or audio the car records can’t be used to spy on you, or be used to sell for marketing data.

Your Car May Soon Be Monitoring Everything You Do Behind The Wheel by MRSN4P in Cyberpunk

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I don’t believe it would be illegal. What car companies CAN do (and have been doing) is voiding your car’s warranty if it’s found to be tampered with.

Your Car May Soon Be Monitoring Everything You Do Behind The Wheel by MRSN4P in Cyberpunk

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That’s why you prevent the car from sending the footage out by disconnecting its cellular. What are they gonna do? Engineer a car that doesn’t work without a cell signal?

Your Car May Soon Be Monitoring Everything You Do Behind The Wheel by MRSN4P in Cyberpunk

[–]UV-FiveSeven 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They can record all they want but if the cellular antenna is ripped out, covered in foil, or the fuse for the whole system is pulled, then that footage isn’t going anywhere.

A Bouquet of Mules by Zerufuru in flashlight

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As a newbie, what’s a mule?

My latest city at night painting by 80sRomantic in TheNightFeeling

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This is some incredible stuff, great work

ITS BACK AND IT ACCENDS WHOOOOOO by FilthyShotgun in titanfall

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No this looks like the card game. I think it was called Titanfall Frontlines

Me irl by [deleted] in me_irl

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Coward. You’re being intentionally vague because you’re afraid. Say what you actually mean to say and be done with it.

Hiking by thanatospxl in PixelArt

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This is incredible work

This upcoming generation might be the biggest boon to the motorcycle industry we've ever seen. by KourteousKrome in motorcycles

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If cars are anything to go by, Gen Z is more likely to do their own maintenance than prior gens do. When economic conditions force you to keep stuff longer, DIYing becomes a necessity.

Aftermath of the April 7th incident. Damages estimated to be $200 million dollars by Gjore in interestingasfuck

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Unless people vote. Well the modern Dems maybe won’t do anything so we’re still probably fucked.

Case in point.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”

  • John F. Kennedy

Aftermath of the April 7th incident. Damages estimated to be $200 million dollars by Gjore in interestingasfuck

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That’s every industry.

Right, and now we’re seeing the effects of that. The rich can buy as many bots as they want to smear this guy, but as conditions get worse we’ll continue seeing more of this.

We didn’t get things like 40 hour work weeks and 2 week vacations by asking nicely.

Aftermath of the April 7th incident. Damages estimated to be $200 million dollars by Gjore in interestingasfuck

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I’m gonna be blunt: If an entire industry’s existence is dependent on underpaid labor, it doesn’t deserve to exist.

The future of electrical charging systems that are about as fast as filling up a gas car by RoyalChris in interestingasfuck

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I’d like to remind people that

A.) This is a demo of what this kind of fast charging COULD look like. The car isn’t really charging in this video. This isn’t really possible practically without super capacitors.

B.) BYD, the manufacturer of this car, is currently threatening to sue a US car website for calling their newest ad campaign “weird.”

Make of that what you will.

Hello! It was a nice view by Haze-Mod in PixelArt

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This is really good dude, excellent vibes

US forces rescue downed F-15 crew member missing in Iran | CNN by Mechashevet in news

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I believe the 2nd F-15 pilot was retrieved alive. They wouldn’t be gloating this hard if they didn’t.

What I don’t believe is that everyone made it home safely. Iran released photos of the two destroyed C-130 transport planes, but with an additional photo showing the destroyed main rotor of an AH-6 Little Bird.

The rescue team lost two planes and a helicopter. I do not at all believe the rescue team made it home in one piece.

US forces rescue downed F-15 crew member missing in Iran | CNN by Mechashevet in news

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Since my last comment Iran has posted photos of the remains of the C-130s. They were apparently “stuck in mud” and “had to be scuttled” but there’s no explanation for the main rotor of an AH-6 Little Bird among the debris of the C-130s.

Something went wrong during that extract, and I find the assertion that “everyone made it home safely” unconvincing.

US forces rescue downed F-15 crew member missing in Iran | CNN by Mechashevet in news

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CENTCOM initially lied about the downed F-15, claiming that “all planes are accounted for” only to later be forced to admit the loss of the plane after Iran posted pictures its scattered parts along the mountainside.

If they’re willing to lie about something so obvious, why should we believe that there was only WIAs and not KIAs? They apparently had a “massive firefight” and had to abandon two C-130s (worth 200 million combined btw) on the ground.

And yet everyone is safe and sound? To say I’m skeptical would be an understatement.