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Republicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversed (futurism.com)

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Besides kit cars or deliberately older designed cars like a Morgan Stanley, what modern cars have no driver tracking? The only one I'm aware of is the Slate EV.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have a 2012 Nissan Leaf in Australia. It uses the 2G network for all telemetry. Australia just turned off the 3G network.

I think its pretty safe to say the telemetry does not work anymore.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Agreed, but a 13 year old Nissan leaf is rather old at this point (which is a good thing!), and is affordable. The person I was responding to implied that there are current production cars without tracking, but they are just unaffordable to most, which I found confusing, as I struggle to come up with a modern current production vehicle that doesn't track the user regardless of it being basic affordable transportation or a Ferrari.