As a (former now?) car enthusiast, this shit is the quickest way to curb my enthusiasm about cars and make me a radical die-hard f*ck cars person. This is also why so many people hate EVs, they just hate this invasive tech and are misinformed. These companies need to be collectively fined HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars, AT LEAST.
I really really hope motorcycles haven’t been infested by this plague yet.
Of course it’s possible if you have physical access. The question is: how easy? And: are you prepared for them to remotely disble your car while you’re working on it
You mean like completely rip open the interior, find the wiring for the antennas and cut them? Yeah, not something I’m gonna do to a machine I just paid tens of thousands of Euros for.
In the cars I know, the electronics are one of the first things they attach to the bare bone car body. Sure I can get to it… by dismantling half of the car.
SIM card removal, antenna destruction, etc. Will only help us until they play the insurance card. Can’t afford shooting down the road in two tons of steel without insurance.
They tested only 25 makes, and all have failed. I say ‘only’ to remind everyone that just because your car’s make isn’t on the list does not mean it’s good, it only means it wasn’t tested.
I’ll stick to my old 2007 shitbox. Until I can block sending all data from a new vehicle to someone else’s servers I just can’t justify buying a new vehicle.
I was at a car engineering conference some years ago and everyone dismissed this problem as minor or not their problem, all they cared about was 5g/self driving, lighter/composite weldin materials/techniques and “cockpit amenities” where they harnessed all sorts of user data.
At least in 2019 they looked at me like I had 3 heads when I mentioned privacy and secure removable ID “pods”. I’m not sure the EU is strong enough to take on all the automaker lobby like they did VW.
You are comparing a singular industry to 40% of the world’s industries (in financial produce) and say the singular industry would win with lobbying. How would that make sense.
And privacy/security surely doesn’t sound as flashy as all those new inventions that necessarily will demand a compromise. Once the wall has holes it will be hard to stop
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