I want to buy a new car, but it needs to be privacy friendly. Sadly you cannot really buy any new Car that is.

Has anybody any experience on making your modern car not phone home to its company, by removing the hardware it uses to do?

  • Reality Suit@lemmy.one
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    10 months ago

    I am never buying a new car again. It will be hard, but I’m only buying old cars and repairing them. Not sure what to do about fuel when that stops. I Not sure about how to deal with a lot in the future, but I’m going to keep trying.

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      10 months ago

      You can have good luck just by buying 10 year old cars - they might have connectivity, but the it will be to a cell/network standard that no longer exists and so for practical purposes the car cannot connect to anything.

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        10 months ago

        3G still exists exactly for monitoring services, just not for consumer use.

        Milions (billions?) of remote monitoring devices rely on it, like oil fields, water systems, gas systems, etc.

        I’m not sure if the automotive systems fall into that, but I could see the manufacturers making sure they were.

        I have a vehicle with 3G that always has 5 bars, even when my phone has little or none. Kind of says a lot about the QOS the automotive industry gets.

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      10 months ago

      Fortunately(?) the planet will have no future if it continues to be the case that basically everyone needs their own personal automobile to function in it.