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Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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This has happened with 3G networked and older vehicles (OnStar has been a thing since the 90's). People tried to unplug the OnStar hardware but they ran it through a CAN bus and it would disable the car (to prevent thieves from circumventing it).