From your weight and facial expressions to your destination, cars collect a startling amount of data about you. Some of it may even raise your insurance costs.
Car companies will tell you themselves if you wade through their privacy policies. The information they harvest can include precise location data about everywhere you go, who’s in the car with you, what’s on the radio and whether you buckle your seatbelt, drive too fast or brake too hard. Some can gather details you might not expect like your weight, age, race and facial expressions. Do you pick your nose? Some cars have cameras on the inside pointed at the driver’s seat. And most come with internet connections that can ship off that data as you drive in blissful ignorance.
If you own your car (not paying off a loan or a lease) you can remove the sim card/ internet module from your car. It may cause some features to stop working (nothing that impares the vehicle) but it stops the car from actually sending the data it’s collecting
Just avoid dealerships and instead use independent mechanics that are hip to your scheme. I bet some mechanics could even use it as a selling point; no hooking up telemetry or even offering services to remove or disable the monitoring systems. I’d use that mechanic for everything.
Though the two 2024 reports documented some promising technologies, neither report found commercially available technology that detects driver alcohol impairment accurately and passively.”
So what tech are they gonna use? Something that doesn’t exist yet? How does a camera sort a drunk person from someone with a disability? Is this going to deny black people at double the rate just because facial tech has a harder time with dark complexions?
There are going to be so many lawsuits with the inevitable amount of false positives this will produce. A little tired this morning? Well now you’ve lost your job as well because your car wouldn’t start because it decided you weren’t in a perfect emotional state to drive.
If you own your car (not paying off a loan or a lease) you can remove the sim card/ internet module from your car. It may cause some features to stop working (nothing that impares the vehicle) but it stops the car from actually sending the data it’s collecting
Nope. They’ll jump the air gap when the mechanic plugs it in
Just avoid dealerships and instead use independent mechanics that are hip to your scheme. I bet some mechanics could even use it as a selling point; no hooking up telemetry or even offering services to remove or disable the monitoring systems. I’d use that mechanic for everything.
And what software and hardware do you think the independent mechanic uses to pull data from your car’s computer?
All new cars this year are required to have driver monitoring camera (DMC) systems.
Then I’m going to require electric tape over the sensors in my car.
So what tech are they gonna use? Something that doesn’t exist yet? How does a camera sort a drunk person from someone with a disability? Is this going to deny black people at double the rate just because facial tech has a harder time with dark complexions?
There are going to be so many lawsuits with the inevitable amount of false positives this will produce. A little tired this morning? Well now you’ve lost your job as well because your car wouldn’t start because it decided you weren’t in a perfect emotional state to drive.