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Why in the fuck can't I purchase a non connected vehicle?
Oh, but you can build yourself one.
/s
You can…until they come for the kits and older cars. It’s also expensive and takes a while, too.
Someone from around here built themselves an A Ford. Second best disconnection only to the original Mercedes. Took them a couple decades, though.
“A Ford”? A Model A you mean?
Correct
Slate Auto next year. Don't get the telematics module.
The main reason is safety; in many parts of the world, an automatic emergency call in case of an accident is mandatory. For this to be possible, the car needs to be connected. I know Russia, China, Japan, and the EU have these rules. I think it was mandatory in parts of the US as well, but I'm not sure.
You can have a car make an emergency automated call without having the car company, their partners, and the government inserted 3 feet up your rectum tracking everything everywhere.
I just want to point out that in order to call emergency services on mobile networks you don't need a sim card nor a modem or writing telemetry on the nand so often and so much that it bricks the car within a few years
Who's safety though? The car owner that chooses to not have this system? The other driver that can choose whether or not to have such a system? The inanimate infrastructure that was involved in the accident?