Great. Do away with the unnecessary telemetry next.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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I used to work with big companies collecting IoT data. 90% were collecting telemetry without knowing why. Or having business goals they could easily achieve in other ways, without hoovering everything and violating our privacy.
The rest were doing it so they could sell it to data brokers and make money.
None of them were trying to push privacy as a competitive advantage.
None of them were trying to push privacy as a competitive advantage.
This is why I don't have a new car. I'm hoping I get one where I have access to my own data (in eg. Home Assistant), and the manufacturer doesn't.
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The thing the vast majority doesn't care about and that doesn't prevent them from buying cars and that you'll have to live with unless you just keep driving your old car forever?
I'll eventually have to buy a new car, yes. But I'll also be looking into replacing the car's cellular antenna with a dummy load if possible. A good car shouldn't depend on cellular networks to be able to function.
Unfortunately, a lot of them are bad https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/
I'm looking for reading on cars that don't break when you disable the cellular antenna, but haven't found much so far.
Even if you disable the antenna, who is to say it doesn't cache telemetry locally that isn't just sucked up by the dealer the next time you bring your car in?
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Nothing to do with the euroNCAP guidance that came out earlier in the year, of course.
Nah I'm sure that carmakers being forced to do this only factored in a little bit.
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Great, now unfuck the car I already have
Would be hilarious if they recalled them and superglued buttons over the touchscreen interface.
Isn't that basically how the knob on the touchscreen of the Ford Mach-E works? I think it's just glued on and simulates a touch like a stylus.
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Step 1: Make insanely stupid design decision to save $2
Step 2: Sell reversal as an upgrade
Glad they return to the old proven ways. It’s so much safer to have proper buttons and dials.
This will be another nice side effect of Tesla shitting the bed. They were the ones that started this trend and now that they are out of fashion, it will become unfashionable again.
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Now wait a second! Hold on! Let's get one thing straight here......
.......buttons should also return to phones.
I'd settle for reasonable ports
i would be willing to pay so much money to have a physical horizontal keyboard in my phone
Not sure your age, but that used to be a thing. A little slide out keyboard as a way to transition the gap between fully onscreen controls, and the old flip phones. This would have been 2003-2009 roughly.
I've never understood the cell phone market thinking. If you have 1 flip phone, it's suddenly ALL flip phones for the next 2 years. Then its a candybar style for the next 3 years. Then one phone gets wider, they all get wider. Then one gets credit card slim, they all get credit card slim. Now for the past decade it's all been black rectangles with no personality besides 1 logo on the back. Just a touchscreen, and a fuck you.
The market is filled with different customers. One wants a keyboard. One doesn't. Why can't they both find what they want in different products on the market?
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honestly, I'm all for buttons on phones too, I miss my sideout keyboard.
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Whoever thought touchscreens were a good idea for a console needs to be shot
They are grat for things that benwfit from havibg flexible touch anywhere interaction like maps.
They suck for anything you want to touch without looking away from the road, like temp controls.
Honda still including buttons and knobs for climate controls was a huge factor for my last purchase. A few brands were instantly rejected because they had climate controls in the touch screen and I had already hated that experience from rentals and my in law's cars.
Nah you should make the steering wheel also a touchscreen, that would be smart. 🙃
Swipe left to go left. Swipe right to go right. Pinch to accelerate. Say in a clear voice "Please begin braking" to decelerate.
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The world is healing
Touch screens in cars has always been a fuckin' stupid idea, and I say that with the sincerest hope that nobody died because they had to look at the touchscreen to know where to tap to change the radio station because commercials came on
Someone has died due to a touchscreen. A woman had a Tesla which you put in park forwards or reverse with a touchscreen. She’d always had trouble with it and got it wrong and reversed into a pond. That meant the power went out so she couldn’t open that door. To get to the emergency escape handle you have to remove the speakers in the doors. So she drowned.
The kicker? Her husband was a millionaire and he immediately put out a statement absolving Tesla and musk from any wrongdoing.
Billionaires, both of them, I think.
It's incredible it took them this long, considering how obvious it is. But good - it's nice to see at least one thing getting less and not more shitty for once, however tiny.
I dare say that that part of the reason behind this decision is that they are also required to meet safety standards.
No it's the only reason they are coming back, if they cared they wouldn't have got ridden of the buttons in the first place
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But why can we not have button phones as well? I miss tactile feedback.
Thank you!
(Though, to be fair, I'm not sure how much they deserve to be thanked for undoing a change that should never have been made in the first place.)
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Good. My air con controls are actual buttons and I can use them without looking at them. But literally everything else in the car is controlled by a touch screen that you have to look at to see what you’re doing.
Hyundai and now VW? Who's next?
Most of them, probably. It's a new requirement in EU to get 5/5 stars safety rating.
That's also why it's specifically 5 features - that's the bare minimum.
This is incredible news because that means my future GTI will have buttons.
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