My Japanese export 2016 doesn’t either. Aside from the fact that we flashed the head unit with custom software, there’s nothing for it to connect to in my country anyway.
But i think its exploded how intrusive the car factory’s are. Just because its a “new” tech, and the politics struggle to control it, or maybe don’t wanna, because they also need the data. I want to buy a new car, e vehicle, but I haven’t done it yet because of the privacy concerns. It feels like nobody, in my country, cares about it.
Are there still some e cars without bloatware and privacy issues??
Here’s an article from last year. It’s Australian, but I think it likely that car brands have the same or similar privacy policies wherever you go.
In short: Tesla and Korean brands are the worst. Japanese brands apart from Mazda are the best for privacy.
There’s also the Mozilla.org Privacy Not Included report
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/
They have Renault as the least creepy and Nissan as the most!
Not really, they’ve all had telemetry for probably 20 years.
The cars with satellite radio are even worse (which isn’t saying much, since they put modems in cars about 20 years ago)
My 2016 doesnt have a modem. It has a Sirus radio…but sirus operates one way and has no way to communicate back.
My Japanese export 2016 doesn’t either. Aside from the fact that we flashed the head unit with custom software, there’s nothing for it to connect to in my country anyway.
Any hints on where one might find details on this?
But i think its exploded how intrusive the car factory’s are. Just because its a “new” tech, and the politics struggle to control it, or maybe don’t wanna, because they also need the data. I want to buy a new car, e vehicle, but I haven’t done it yet because of the privacy concerns. It feels like nobody, in my country, cares about it.