It replaces a cable with an overly complex potentiometer with circuit board and wiring that will fail and be irreplaceable 10 Years after the vehicle is Sold, rendering it unuseable.
you mean a TPS? Easily replaced. Before that, throttle cables would get stuck after a few years of dirt and corrosion.
this is Lemmy...they don't even own a car.
20 years ago, the Chinese and big corporations plotted for this day.
Why do you think they wanted electric steering
Lighter and more reliable than hydraulic powered steering
and to get rid of throttle cables
drive by wire is more reliable and saves fuel
and “safe” automatic braking? Control. They can lock your doors and drive you anywhere, they can slam on your brakes as a semi truck is behind you if they deem you a threat to dear Leader.
are the same people concerned about car data switching to analog phones?
Phones are grabbing all the same data.
That world should still be the societal end goal.
Sure do.
And disagree. It replaces a cable with an overly complex potentiometer with circuit board and wiring that will fail and be irreplaceable 10 Years after the vehicle is Sold, rendering it unuseable.
Every "improvement" on cars has been war on removing your ability to fix anything yourself or keep a car for life. Its all throwaway trash now made to stick you on a lifelong subscription while recording your every move (now with cameras inside too yay)
Remember, "safety" and "protect the children" is how they take all your freedoms away. And it works because people are stupid.
But we don't live in that world so cars shouldn't connect to the Internet. If we need Internet in the car we can use out phones. At least then we only have one invasive thing.
Just do the antenna then. Hopefully it doesn't brick itself when it loses signal.
You do realize electronic throttles have been the norm for well over 20 years, right? And it replaces a lot of expensive parts with one single part.
We've got a 2015 Toyota Highlander with only Bluetooth for the headunit.
"Will"? Are!
People thought we were crazy when we said they were tracking and recording your every single move with phones (I said this for years before it was mainstream). Now why do you think they need surveillance centers? more data storage. because everything is tracked and controlled to influence politics, get rid of undesireables etc.
We are way beyond tinfoil hats here bud. If you dont think they have control over every single aspect of your life, youre the delusional one.
While we're reaching crazy conclusions, can we call Amarok, Vox, and any other program that plays local music files back at you a piracy tool too?
I just cache it, like google do, for more throughput on last stage deployment system. Cache duration vary from a few minute to multiple year.
How dare they save a file instead of streaming it
"Could"? Will!
NO! YA'LL THINK SO ??
No, there are many convenient things you can do with having cars connect to the Internet. I don't agree that that's the answer to this problem.
The answer is that Stallman was right, software should be free as in freedom (i.e. among other things, modifiable by the user), and that includes software that powers cars. If we lived in that world, cars would only connect to the Internet for purposes chosen by the user.
But actually though, he's not wrong. Waymo, Tesla self driving mode, they can remote shut off any tesla they want, people have hacked cars before, it's kind of a whole thing.
They seemingly haven't showed their entire hand just yet, so far waymos only forcibly detain and (legally speaking) kidnap people when they detect [CRIME] rather than driving them to the police station, but there's no reason they couldn't do that, it is physically possible, the only thing stopping it is "the guy hasn't pressed that button yet" in essence, but they likely will.
HAH, "could be." Bro they're already selling your driving data to your insurance company and they're using it to raise your rates, have been since like 2013.
They can lock your doors and drive you anywhere,
...............k
My 2013 cars do not have any way to phone home.
It would depend on the features lost (I've heard rumours that some cars lock the trays or reclining the seats behind the modem access) and on whether such a modification would run afoul of the certification processes needed to keep the car on the street, legally speaking.
For much less mental health hassle, I could simply search for an older car.
Some cars you can just pull the fuse for the modem. You lose a lot of features, but that's the trade off.