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NoShitDept but this investigation revealed some details on what kind of spying modern vehicles are capable of.

Including but not limited to: location logs correlated with time of day, braking pressure, vehicle speeds, passenger weights, phone access, in vehicle audio recording, driver profiling and even in some cases a 'sexual activity' profile, all of which are sold to insurance companies and advertising agencies.
Any thoughts from Poal as to what the last good model year of vehicle is, because it seems like everything after 2020 is fully loaded with spyware

#NoShitDept but this investigation revealed some details on what kind of spying modern vehicles are capable of. Including but not limited to: location logs correlated with time of day, braking pressure, vehicle speeds, passenger weights, phone access, in vehicle audio recording, driver profiling and even in some cases a 'sexual activity' profile, all of which are sold to insurance companies and advertising agencies. Any thoughts from Poal as to what the last good model year of vehicle is, because it seems like everything after 2020 is fully loaded with spyware

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[–] • 3 pts

Better yet, anyone here know how to take all that crap out of your car?

[–] • 2 pts

I believe there is a market for a simple gadget which replaces your cellular antenna connection with a impedance matching resistor, thereby preventing the transmission of all this information.

Toyota collects, on average, over a million samples per day per vehicle.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

The 2000s was probably the last good decade when it comes to cars. Vidya games too.

[–] • 1 pt

I drive an old 2008 qashqai 1.5dci, no dpf, no overly complex systems and nothing like the things you mention. I get 50-65mpg depending on type of driving and yes it's accurate, on a run if I do 60 I will get 65mpg and a little more sometimes, around town in currently at 51.6. My car is meticulously maintained by me and has oil changes every 5k(fully synthetic) with seafoam motor treatment every year, the reason I drive it is so I don't have those issues that you raise, it's at 153k (miles)and is very very clean for it's age, I always get comments about how tidy it is. The weak point is the turbo and I'm certain I'm going to have to replace that before 200k but if the car stays in as good condition as it is then I will fit a decent one and keep running it. I have splurged and fitted an Android unit as the original cd player and radio gave out last year but I haven't connected up the gps on that I just left it out of the equation. I just use it for radio and music from phone etc, never maps or anything like that. My advice is get something old and decent and look after it, all that stuff is just going to get worse.

[–] • 1 pt

They will eventually mandate some tracking device.