The modern automobile is safer, cleaner, more efficient, and more technologically advanced than anything that came before it. Yet those improvements have come at a cost. For many owners, mechanics, and independent repair shops, that cost is repairability.
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…
It’s what i have and works just fine.
None that’s why like Doctorow is saying there’s no way to shop yourself out of these issues and it’s time to get to politicking.