Comment by dgfitz

Comment by dgfitz a day ago

I will buy used cars that don’t auto-anything for me until I literally cannot find one anymore. Then I’ll buy a tune to remove the feature.

esseph a day ago

This sounds like it'd be a good way to lose your license in the future, and maybe have a criminal court case if there was an significant accident that could have been prevented by said features you disabled.

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DaSHacka a day ago

Only criminals need to modify their car.
Now accept our integrated telemetry gathering that reports directly to LexisNexis so insurance companies can raise your rates [0].
Surely you understand, think of the children!
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driv...

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- esseph 21 hours ago
  
  Nobody had said anything about telemetry, so far. The rest of us are talking about actual safety features.
  
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  DaSHacka 19 hours ago
  
  They're often one and the same in newer vehicles, unfortunately.
  Criminalizing modifying your own car only stands to benefit the corporations that salivate at the mouth thinking of the data mining opportunities.
  
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- dgfitz 12 hours ago
  
  It’s so funny to me that people think just because a law is passed, that fixes problems.
  “This wasn’t illegal and now we made it illegal, we fixed the problem!”
  How’s that been working out?
  
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  zimpenfish 11 hours ago
  
  I'm guessing you haven't died from polluted drinking water, contaminated food, fake medicines, smog, unsafe vehicles, unsafe roads, dangerous household goods, lethal home wiring, shoddily constructed housing, or any of the other hundreds of things that laws have improved?
  
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