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The modern automobile is safer, cleaner, more efficient, and more technologically advanced than anything that came before it. Yet those improvements have come at a cost. For many owners, mechanics, and independent repair shops, that cost is repairability.

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[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and then what are you gonna buy instead, a second hand car from the mid 90s before they all started adding telemetry modules.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I did literally that.

The real solution is regulatory, though, because obviously my boycott has done absolutely fuck-all to change manufacturer behavior.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

yeah they know most people don't know or don't care, maybe selling the data from the telemetry to a data broker who on sells it to ICE might change some peoples minds...

Or if ICE starts connecting to the telemetry modules directly on older less secure models...