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Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here's how they get away with collecting and sharing your data (techxplore.com)

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Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here's how they get away with collecting and sharing your data::Cars with internet-connected features are fast becoming all-seeing data-harvesting machines—a so-called "privacy nightmare on wheels," according to US-based research conducted by the Mozilla Foundation.

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[–] flooppoolf@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Also, is there regulations in place that prohibit this from happening?

For example, if my all in one GPS CarOS Bluetooth WiFi CarPlay Android Auto headset decides to take a shit and die, my brake pedal absolutely better fucking work.. right?

There shouldn’t be anything keeping the car from running normally. I expect any tech you wouldn’t find in a ‘66 chevelle (anything aside from 12v push lighter, signals) to be busted if telematics are disabled.

edit: anyone remember The Toyota Brake Failure Scandal?

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

America is a corporatocracy, with automotive as a major player, there will be no help from the government on this.

[–] flooppoolf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, after the electronic brake scandal with Toyota I’m sure the redundancies Tangler is talking about were set in place. It sucks here but we’re not in the Cyberpunk Dystopia just yet.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

These are not Apache helicopters. These are designed and manufactured on a shoestring budget. They don’t have time or money for any redundancy, and there is no current policy in place that I know of that mandates redundancy of by-wire systems.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

corporatocracy

Plutocracy with a bit of democracy?

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wikipedia explains it well

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't think this is really a thing.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lobbyists made it this way

[–] TheWildTangler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Electronic throttle and braking have redundancies, you should be safe in that regard

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m curious what electronic throttle’s redundancy is? I have been in automotive parts and repair almost 15 years, and drive by wire has no redundancy. If that module goes bad, or connection corrodes, you are dead in the water. Braking has always been hydraulic based but with electric actuators for ABS, so I kinda see your point of redundancy there. Steering has to be mechanical, but Lexus and Mercedes have been chipping away at that for a decade, and they are asking for no mechanical fallback, as it would hurt the user experience.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Less of a "backup" and more of a "fail closed" system, from what I've seen. The throttle will at least have the decency to drop to idle when it stops working as opposed to staying at it's last position.