I find it difficult to believe that a 1991 Geo Metro could possibly be that advanced.

I hate this.

I think it's wild how much surveillance we accept in Europe from car manufacturers. Teslas and other EVs with cameras everywhere are all over the place. I’m Norwegian, and Teslas are the most popular cars here. I can look out my window and see four to eight Teslas, all of them covered in cameras.

100 car sized computers or 1 computer sized car

As if I needed even more reasons to not buy a car (other than the obvious "it's extremely expensive" and "even the electric ones require excessive amounts of energy and minerals to produce")

there are 100 computers hiding in your car right now

Wow! I have a car?

All I need is a baseline open hardware EV. Fat chance, of course. So I guess I have to buy something used, today older than 8 years and counting.

My daily driver is a bicycle, checkmate.

You’re riding a data center on wheels

Oh yeah? Where’s my tax break then? And my subsidized water usage?

Not mine. My car was built in 1999. Going to drive it until they stopped offering fuel at gas stations and then just transplant a electric drivetrain.

My car has a cassette tape and no Bluetooth.

Sure, if you consider every tiny microcontroller to be a computer, it's probably more than 100.

I mean, strictly speaking yes, but that's like saying your quartz watch is a computer.

Not this ship, sister.

Given the fact that my wipers slow down whenever I indicate, I don't think I'm being surveilled by my car. It's one big electrical short circuit on wheels that somehow still operates.

It's like a rather dysfunctional tank. Absolutely nothing that happens to it phases it or damages it in any way but it's baseline functionality is pre-compromised. When I got rear-ended by an inattentive driver the front of his car was all smashed in, my bumper was a little loose and I gave it a tap and it snapped back into place.

There is definitely something to be said for mid-2010s manufacturing. They've gotten really good at building cars but haven't quite got as far as putting chips in them yet. The dirt cheap on the second hand market and they just keep going forever.

The high tech in vehicles that I wanted:

The "high tech" we got:

I didn't read the article but these days a turn signa,for instance, doesn't just connect to a flasher and a bulb. It connects to the network in the car and requests that the computer initiate the turn signal. This means the turn signal switch itself has to have a chip in it to communicate with the network that I believe they are calling a sort of computer. Virtually every component in the car operates like this. It really isn't the same thing as 100 computers..

Pretty sure that my 2004 rav4 that just lost a muffler on the highway does not house a data center, it still has a tape deck....

* data gathering center

We have a 1999 model car. I know it inside and out and there are nowhere near 100 computers in it.

Can my mobile data center extract income for me somehow? How about a class action lawsuit from all vehicle owners to get a cut of that lucrative "selling your information to other predatory companies" gig?

No it doesn't. The only computer in there is the aftermarket head unit, and even that is over a decade old.

So then, beyond safety standards, what's stopping someone from developing an open source hardware vehicle at this point?

There Are 100 Computers Hiding in Your Car Right Now (You’re Riding a Data Center mobile surveillance and anti-privacy device on Wheels)

Headlines are clearly not written for lemmy users lmao.

Can't believe they made my 2010 Scion XD a data center 16 years ago

Idk bud. 2008 I might have like 10.

My motorcycle, Harley Davidson Pan America, is a computer on two wheels. If I fire it up before the computer completes the start phase (~10 seconds), it will eventually throw error codes.

If you want an automobile that will survive an EMP blast, find an old manual transmission Mercedes-Benz W123 240D.

I figured there was a lot of data tracking because it's not uncommon for my infotainment center to crash my Apple CarPlay connection when a message pops up saying my truck is sending data to Ford. Like damn, chill out Ford. Let me live a little.

This is promising career news for data center techs like me.

Nope. We bought a pretty dumb car. Sadly only the "entry-models" have no shit in them. At least no cloud-shit. Android-auto to not be bound to abysmal onboard-systems that require subscriptions. And that's it.

I love tech from the depth of my heart. But in a car I want haptic buttons and dials and no 2m long touchscreens where I can only turn on the AC when I have reception 😁

Then why the fuck are data centers getting fucking land?!