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Ah yes the car I use to put myself into public is not private.
What if:
My car doesn't have a cellular connection? Does it still spy?
I have SatNav, but it doesn't have a hotspot/wifi/cell, does it so collect data somehow? I'm guessing somehow over GPS/sat maybe?
If it doesn't have ANY online or cellular features AND the model never had them as an option, it probably doesn't have a sim card and won't track you. Sim cards cost the manufacturer money.
But if the same model as your car was available with such features and yours was just configured without them, it's entirely possible yours has a sim card too.
With no cellular connection, no data will go out as GPS is one-way by nature. I suppose it's possible someone with physical access can retrieve some metrics if relevant but that's not really a factor IMHO.
Time for opensourcevehicles and opensourcetransit to become a thing. I'm one of many people interested in doing that. Anyone have spitball ideas on how to go about doing that?
Trying to think up some simpler first projects, how to get it funded, and how to get a community for that up and running
Also, some people were interested in making opensourcebusiness community. If anyone is still interested then please do it there was 7 people I remember that were interested at the time for that
We can also get opensourceanimation, opensourceuiux, and way more up and running. To slowly transform our world and get open source to grow even more
Edit: Would be cool for people to get community projects made for bikes, electric bikes, bike-cars, cars, VTOL's, and way more overtime. Trams, trolleys, trains, high speed rail, airplanes, submarines, airships, etc
Edit 2: Main focus being people-focused transit. Didn't realize I was in fuckcars. If we are going to have any transit might as well be open source especially EV's
I would assume an open source e-bike would probably be the place to start.
Someone elsewhere in the thread linked https://www.openmotors.co/product/tabbyevo/, which I had never heard of before and which is actually pretty fascinating.
I'd obviously say the best open source vehicles are bikes and scooters, but I understand that currently isn't an option for everyone and that even in the ideal scenario there's going to need to be a small number of cars, trucks and vans. IDK how practical something like this will really be, but it's at least pretty neat.
Awesome thanks for the heads up! Feel like it will be possible just for bigger projects it will definitely need a community open source everything approach
Y’all just need to stop being selfish and think about the shareholders.
I don't have time for them.
I am worried about tHe eCoNoMy
It's even trickier with EVs.
On the one hand you can charge your EV at home and no one knows about it.
On the other, you can't pay for a public charger with cash, there's always a trail. Cars have unique identifiers that are communicated to the charger when connected. Each time you charge in public they know exactly who are you and what car it is.
same is true when you fill up at a gas station...
You can pay with cash at a gas station.
Many smaller gas stations don't have automated license plate scanning systems to track customers. I'm not even sure if bigger gas stations do it.
It's not the gas station that is tracking you. It's the Flock cameras.
So I guess we don't have to worry about privacy in cars. Since everyone is tracked anyway being tracked by your car doesn't change anything.
State sponsored surveillance Flock cameras photographed the chat.