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Why Your New Car Is Nearly Impossible to Fix (And It’s Getting Worse)
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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2026
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What choice do consumers have, anyway? Return the car cause you don't agree with the disclaimer?
and then what are you gonna buy instead, a second hand car from the mid 90s before they all started adding telemetry modules.
I did literally that.
The real solution is regulatory, though, because obviously my boycott has done absolutely fuck-all to change manufacturer behavior.
yeah they know most people don't know or don't care, maybe selling the data from the telemetry to a data broker who on sells it to ICE might change some peoples minds...
Or if ICE starts connecting to the telemetry modules directly on older less secure models...