This is something that bothers me. I see EVs as future and a next step in car evolution, but why all of them have to be connected? Why most people don't have problem with it? I'm not talking about Chinese cars, but all of them.

20 years ago if you would say a car could be hacked one would laugh and say that this only happens in sci-fi movies, now this is a reality. And that's not the only threat, there's a huge implication with privacy. Why people are so not caring about it?

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because it is easy.

That is it. It is easy and cheap to make cars connected because of abysmal lack of regulation and the massive IoT chip industry

Integrating wireless radios into products is standard by now and chips required to do anything but 5g are extremely cheap. GPS is also dirt cheap. The biggest costs by far are design hours and certification.

Then they can make money because of the software "features" that only take man hours to develop as well as sell your tracking days after the fact. Together with the fact that if the market says that most people want those convenience features and couldn't care less about their valuable data as we have seen through every tech industry, there is little reason NOT to put in those features, especially when it enables OTA car firmware updates also.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Winner winner chicken dinner!!!!

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think it's simply that there's not much we can do about it

[–] Drigo@sopuli.xyz 19 points 8 months ago

So true, it's either buy a car which steals all of your data or don't buy a car at all. Which isn't really a choice for most of us

[–] unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

How many people use smart devices? On the door, tv, Alexia? People "want" to be hacked.

[–] johnyma22@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

They don't "all" have to be connected, the vast majority of available global models aren't (IE a lot of the affordable Indian/Chinese models).

The vast majority of models sold in the USA are IE Tesla. More affordable models like the Renault Zoe afaik aren't but I'm not sure how accessible these are in the USA. I'm not sure about the Chevvy Volt tbh.. Consumers can purchase to buy a non-connected vehicle.

Out of the EVs I have I mostly use the one that is connected so I can do automations to turn on climate control etc. Connectivity is a convenience/safety thing for me and I assume others...

[–] arran4@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

The people that do care the most have a choice to use older cars and that reduces resistance now.