Toyota, Progressive Insurance, and a data analytics firm are now being accused of collecting detailed personal driving information without proper consent

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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

my rates do seem high. I had a wreck a few years back but it was a dented door and fixed just fine. I work from home so I dont drive all that much, and the car is cheap. But it does have telemetry. I wonder if I should just bridge a resistor across the onstar antenna terminals

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Casually reading, you could put a 50ohm or larger resistor there.

    You will have a better result removing/disabling the module completely. There are several searchable tutorials based on the vehicle module.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yes but if it ever goes into the shop a software update can teach it to misbehave when things are disconnected. An artificially weak signal, on the other hand, would fall under a practical failure mode they would have accommodated for in firmware.

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