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Without informing you, auto makers are selling data on your driving habits to your insurer (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 11 months ago by DougHolland to c/aiop

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[–] MrJameGumb 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not from my car! It's a 2006! It doesn't even have Bluetooth lol

[–] HeyJoe 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was about to say the same thing! Still hanging in there, 233k on it and hope to go a few more years. Weirdly enough it's a base model car and does have Bluetooth, but only for phone calls not audio. It also has a key fob which I think is funny because neither of my wife's cars (a 2006 Lexus and a 2015 Toyota highlander) even have that.

[–] MrJameGumb 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had a key fob but it accidentally went through the washing machine lol I had to take the battery out because it kept setting off the alarm every 5 minutes

I got one of those Bluetooth transmitters that plugs into the lighter so I could listen to music from my phone!

[–] HeyJoe 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Haha, wow, I did the same thing. It randomly went off after that twice before I did the same. I ended up waiting weeks for it to dry completely before trying again, and it worked fine after that, thankfully.

I tried at least 3 different Bluetooth solutions as well but none lasted very long. My car keeps the plugs active even when not running so I was never able to keep it plugged in. A few of them the dongle that plugs into aux just broke or needed to be wiggled after some time and so I just gave up. I just went back to straight aux cable to usb c and has been ok for a bit now.

One thing I need desperately is a new exhaust, outside that it's running pretty good.

[–] MrJameGumb 1 points 11 months ago

I let mine dry completely and it just did nothing, so I popped it open and replaced the battery and it worked ok but it would set off the panic alarm at random times so I just use the regular key now

[–] Pirky 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Given the natural progression of time, "dumb" cars will eventually become a non-viable option. Do we have any methods to keep them from tracking our driving habits?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unplug the comms equipment.

[–] Garbanzo 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If I were a big ol piece of shit running a car company, I'd push hard for mandatory 'smart' features, then tie the comms in directly so that disabling them would be illegal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

So my car is from 2012. How exactly are these new cars accessing the internet to report back to the manufacturer?