39 replies to this topic

[Advmoto18]

Personally, I think the issue of your truck "spying" on you is a non-issue. Yes, the sensors will collect vehicle performance and fault data and store it. And may or may not send the data to the manufacturer without your knowledge. But, I seem to believe tracking your location and other personal info (without your approval (enabling such a feature)) would open the manufacturer up to a number of Federal Privacy Act violations.

Edited by Advmoto18, 23 December 2019 - 03:08 PM.

[AWG_Pics]

It is not a threshold issue for me. Heck, my smartphone knows where I have been, and sends that to the cloud. Traffic cameras and other surveillance cameras seem to be scattered all over many cities. Face recognition software is accurate and easy to come by. My ATM and credit cards leave a digital exhaust trail behind me. And Amazon knows pretty much everything I want almost before I even search for it sometimes. Modern world problems... meh.

Edited by AWG_Pics, 23 December 2019 - 04:39 PM.

[Mighty Dodge Ram]

Alexa listens to our conversations in the house and I’m pretty sure SIRI does the same in our vehicles. I’ll get nervous when I hear the voice of HAL 9000. 

[JaSAn]

What was new (to me) is that they are not just keeping data on driving (i.e. how I drive and where I go) but copying the contents of a connected smart phone (pictures, contacts, texts).  Why and to what purpose?  And that is only what was retrievable.

 

jim

[Foy]

Yep...really missing my 2003 F-250 7.3 that I sold to buy a new 2016 F-350.  

 

Reminds me of the most often-repeated phrase I hear in casual discussions with diesel truck owners. When hearing that mine is an '02 7.3, I hear some version of "Man, I wish I'd never sold my 7.3".  Of course some of those guys had moved "up" to the 6.0, so their buyer's remorse had some meaning.

 

Foy

[Smokecreek1]

First it was electric windows. Still glad my old "99" F150 4x4 is still running fine!!

 

Smoke

[AWG_Pics]

First it was electric windows. Still glad my old "99" F150 4x4 is still running fine!!

 

Smoke

Ha! I learned to drive in an old jeep, crank windows, four on the floor and pneumatic windshield wipers activated by a pull knob on the top of the windshield. Getting it into and out of 4WD was like solving a rubik's cube - every time. They don't make them like that anymore!

Tony

[kimosawboy]

I will stick with my 71 and 66 daily drivers, pass on the electronic extras.

[Advmoto18]

And, I guess why my daily driver is a 1988 Toyota Land Cruiser - BJ74, RH drive, diesel imported from Japan 2 years ago.  Heck, it only has an AM radio with one speaker that sounds like those speakers from the 50s and 60s you stick on your window at the drive-in theater!

[PaulT]

And, I guess why my daily driver is a 1988 Toyota Land Cruiser - BJ74, RH drive, diesel imported from Japan 2 years ago.  Heck, it only has an AM radio with one speaker that sounds like those speakers from the 50s and 60s you stick on your window at the drive-in theater!

 

For some reason, I have a sudden craving for popcorn, sody dope and Raisinettes to accompany the tinny sound.

 

Paul