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Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies. (www.consumerreports.org)
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Data sent by vehicles and companion apps included locations, VINs, and other identifiers. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft were among the top receivers of driver data.

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[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Cars have had standalone GNSS (GPS) for quite a while. GNSS itself doesn’t require internet. Its output is coordinates and elevation - it’s the “gotta have internet to load the map in which I’ll show you the coordinates” that makes people associate GNSS with internet. Offline maps solve this.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Unless it has local maps like mine that are now a decade out of date. It's completely useless now but i refuse to pay several 100 for the update.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

If it's a decade out of date, it may be old enough that the maps live on a DVD or SD card, in which case you might be able to get updated maps for free. Yarr!