Why exactly does vehicleprivacyreport want my VIN instead of year make and model? That’s me giving an unvetted third party website the unique tracking token for my car….
Hardware in cars, like hardware in computers drifts in configuration over manufacturing time. Some cars from a manufacturer might have some granularity of tracking that earlier units off the line didn’t. Toyota does this with their Camry hybrids, for example.
The model year and other relevant info is found in the first part of the VIN. There’s no legit reason for it to demand the whole thing, which it does.
Of course they lied about it. I don’t know how anybody could have believed them in the first place.
Because the general population doesn’t know much about data privacy and they are purposefully mislead and inticed into accepting agreements that share all that information out. The point of NBTV is to raise awareness.
They’re fed propaganda to believe that privacy doesn’t matter….
But just imagine a Google admin had access to all the information about you and wanted to blackmail you into doing something…. The sheer power of that is terrifying.
Bikes are great. Just saying.
You don’t have a disability. Just saying.
Until you have to travel over 40 miles in any direction.
I live car-free, and I travel over 40 miles every now and then.
40?
You’re in better shape than I am.
How ableist of you. Like so many others, if I could ride a bike I would.
How ableist of you to assume that we could read your reply.
And only some e-bikes have a built-in cell phone.
I was excited for EVs but it looks like I’ll be driving gasoline dinosaurs for the rest of my life.
It will have to be the older gasoline dinosaurs, all the ones today spy
Yes well, older gasoline cars are the only cars. That’s what I meant.
Yup. Fearing the same as well. All I’m asking for is a car, not a Windows computer.
Sadly it seems our best bet would be to build it ourselves.
I’m imagining cars like Framework laptops and you can install an open source OS of your own to operate it.
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That’s a good thing, you can re-fuel it without having to find a dedicated charging spot and compared to EVs they are far more repairable.
This guy has an interesting perspective on that topic. He provides good points on how what you’re saying could be wrong
Interesting video, never knew about custom operating systems/firmware for EVs. Still an old dumb car is what I will use for the time being.
you can re-fuel it without having to find a dedicated charging spot
Really? Does it rain gas from the sky in your area?
compared to EVs they are far more repairable.
No they’re not.
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Yes you can re-fuel it, ever heard of a gas can? While you’re waiting for your EV to charge on the side of the road I’m already off driving. I should have specified old dumb cars are more repairable.
Yes you can re-fuel it, ever heard of a gas can?
So people just leave full gas cans all over the place in your area?
While you’re waiting for your EV to charge on the side of the road I’m already off driving.
An EV charges nearly as quickly as you can fill up yours with gas…
As an owner of a plug-in hybrid this is patently incorrect. Most electric car owners have at most of 240 volt outlet (in the US), which while can fill your battery in a few hours from home, still falls short of the half hour round trip to gas station and back. Maybe with time our infrastructure and technology will get to that point though.
It’s not incorrect, you just don’t know what you’re talking about.
People are aguing about the reparability thing a lot. Current electric cars are less reparable, but that is by design. Car manufacturers are using electric as an excuse to make cars harder to repair. The reality is that electric motors and batteries are dead simple, they just add a bunch of techno bullshit to make them worse. Charging is bad right now, but that will improve with time, just like gas did when gas cars were new. I like cars, and hate seeing them being turned into what they are today, but there is nothing fundamentally different about electric cars to make them the piles of absolute garbage they are, (apart from battery technology not being great right now). 90% of the problems with electric cars are there by design, and I think everyone should buy a car that isn’t designed to suck, whether it’s gas, electric, steam, or fart powered.
Someone is bound to start selling conversion kits for regular cars eventually - turn your 20 year old gas dinosaur into a zippy EV or hybrid, no spyware required. We can already do it with two-wheelers, and Edison Motors is well on their way to making kits to turn big trucks into hybrids.
Yes.
