• lettruthout@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Probably would vary depending upon the brand, but I wonder how hard it would be to disable the network. At some point would the vehicle refuse to operate without a network connection?

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      1 year ago

      Maybe not even intentionally. When games first became “online only” it was a big deal, now many games just break if they can’t initialize an internet connection. Even ones that don’t use it.

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        1 year ago

        The best part is when the publisher shuts down the server on their end so the game breaks even if you are connected to the internet. I’m still waiting for Blood Dragon to get a patch to remove the periodic calls home, but it doesn’t seem likely at this point

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      Probably not, I’m sure there’s plenty of situations they wouldn’t have network connections, so we’d have prohably heard about it if it were na issue with existing cars.

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      1 year ago

      Imagine getting lost in the middle of nowhere and your car refuses to start because it can’t get internet

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        1 year ago

        That sounds like a feature to me. Gotta pay extra for that offline start capability. And if you don’t designate this far as your offline remote start car before hand you’re fucked.

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      I don’t think so. The risk of a PR disaster because a car refused to start, due to them not having a signal either due to an outage, or being underground, is too great.

      Car companies probably don’t want to deal with the headlines of “Man left stranded in parking garage after his car was unable to connect to the internet”, or “Woman marooned on mountainside because her car could not connect with the servers”.

      At least, not until connection technology is good enough, or connectivity ubiquitous enough that neither of those are big enough issues for most.

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      1 year ago

      Some brands it’s easy.

      I know my Ford just has a data toggle. Turn it off and it stops sending and receiving data from the cloud.

      But stuff stops working when I do that. The traffic, and app stuff all need it I think. Gps has a toggle too but it just seems to turn off the map stuff.

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        1 year ago

        What we want is to be able to direct the data, in standard protocols, to a server of our choosing. To be able to use apps of our choosing. No damn lock-ins.

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          1 year ago

          If they don’t get benefits from the data, why won’t spend money putting in the features

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            1 year ago

            It probably need to be regulation. It’s not a space competition alone will work for. Very few consumers will choose one car over another due to privacy options.