• CubitOom@infosec.pub
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    Is adopting new surveillance technologies part of that goal to reduce emissions?

    If not, maybe we should try to consider how to have electric vehicles that do not surveil us?

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      I’m all for less surveillance in cars, but American cars don’t have any less surveillance than Chinese ones, so using it as a reason to prevent their import is a bit disingenuous.

      What more Americans could use are more affordable cars—particularly affordable electric cars—and competition with Chinese imports would help that happen.

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        Surveillance in new cars is a reason to not buy new cars.

        No matter where it’s country of origin is.

        I would rather modify an old I.C.E. car to be electric than to buy anything that reduces my freedom or charges me subscriptions for basic features.

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          I would rather modify an old I.C.E. car to be electric than to buy anything that reduces my freedom or charges me subscriptions for basic features.

          So you don’t have a cell phone/smart phone, right? Or smart tv? Or streaming box? Or a windows computer? Or a car with TPMS sensors?

          Because they’re all tracking you, and that’s just a few off the top of my head. Yes, you can limit what and how is tracking you, but when it really starts to cut into the quality of life, most people don’t care. And yes, great, you’re not most people but that’s not what people think about. If they did, digital privacy laws would be radically different.

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      Concur…

      However, I gleefully await the modders to teach me how to remove that when I eventually get an EV