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Years ago, I heard of a guy who failed one of the voluntary "enter your age" checks because it thought he was 7 years old. He was actually 107, but the system only considered the last two digits.
A Gemini reference in the wild!
I looked a couple years ago. Briefly toyed with it, made a page or two. I like the ethos, and am about 99% on board. I only wish it had inline images. I feel like that omission alone would greatly hurt its adoption and relegate it to not just niche, but super-ultra-niche.
Oh, nice. Canada & USA have cooperated closely for a long time on regulations for cars, so manufacturers only need minor tweaks to sell into both markets. Hopefully that'll help.
Oh, I see. I thought maybe I did it by accident somehow!
I bike everywhere when I can. I'll join the fuckcars group, now that I know about it.
I'm pretty new to Lemmy and noticed that my post was crossposted to fuckcars and privacy@programming.dev. I have no problem with that, but I didn't do it on purpose!
I mostly agree. But sometimes if a single jurisdiction gets regulation in place, it can be cheaper for companies to produce a single model to comply with all of them, rather than make multiple models. Even if they do make multiple models, it still means there is a supply of privacy-spec cars.
California in the USA has been more privacy friendly than most states. If California would crank up some car privacy regs, maybe work with the Europeans and Canada on a common legal standard, that is a huge foot in the door! It means people in other US states could buy a California-spec car. If the momentum builds enough, maybe companies would say screw it and sell the privacy-spec cars everywhere. That happened in the past with car safety regs. It went from auto companies whining about it, to the same companies featuring it as a selling point. Look how well our cars do in crash tests!
I agree car privacy is going to be a hard fight. Auto companies will fight dirty to avoid privacy regs. But we can push on this. A groundswell of public support can't hurt.
They could have made it a lot cheaper as a coupe.
Maybe if it sees market success, they'll branch out into other body styles. I want a car too, not a truck.
have joked ... that if I have to buy a new vehicle I am ripping the whole dashboard out.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Slate seems to be the only brand currently that intends to deliver vehicles with zero connectivity required.
Do you mean these guys? That's the first I heard of them so thank you for that! I thought it would turn out to be a European make, but they're on my side of the pond. A zero-connectivity electric car would be the dream. I like the idea of electric cars but so far they have all been even more wrapped up in telematics than internal combustion cars.
And if you reconnect to get them, there’s no guarantee your car doesn’t suddenly dump all your personal data obtained in the meantime onto company servers.
It's a good point. Also I wonder if OBD-II can do that. A person could disable the port, but that may make it hard / impossible to get the vehicle serviced.
For sure. We're in a difficult place. Arguably the ultimate solution has to be regulatory, but we don't have that yet. All we have is whatever the community can figure out on its own. The more surveillance gets integrated into complex automotive systems, the less approch-able it is for average people to yank a fuse or unscrew an antenna coupler.
This is becoming a big problem where I live.
It's part technological, because a de-restricted ebike can hit speeds that human cyclists cannot do. But I believe it is also culture. Before the ebike craze, human bikes and joggers or dog walkers had a mutually respectful culture around here. Cyclists would warn pedestrians with a bell or verbal signal, and would pass respectfully. Dog walkers would heel in their dogs to avoid clotheslining the passing cyclist. If quarters were tight, or the pedestrian had children or pets, cyclists would slow for safety as they passed.
Now add ebikes. That culture is under severe strain. The ebikes are blasting by pedestrians and human bikes at tremendous speeds, 30+ mph. Human bikes have a range of speeds of course. A 20 year old and a 65 year old are very different. Yet both go faster downhill and slower uphill. A de-restricted ebike can go very fast even uphill. It amplifies the speed difference.
I am not against ebikes for some uses. For example, they are wonderful for older people, to make up for declining physical abilities. They can be excellent for cargo bikes. But for an able bodied 20 year old to terrorize a mother pushing a baby stroller by passing 3 feet away at 30 mph, that's not a good scene.