evacideThe first person to write a comprehensive report on the use of integrated car tech in domestic abuse situations will win my eternal gratitude, as expressed through the purchase of drinks.
eagerpebble@evacide I will pitch in for a round of those drinks. We really need to get regulation of car tech. Tesla really showed the auto and auto tech industries exactly how shitty everything could be, and they ate it up.
Andrew Zonenberg@eagerpebble @evacide Yeah I would love to see legislation targeted at telematics etc.
For example, a law that all "phone home" functionality in a vehicle must be possible to permanently disable in a well-documented, easily verifiable fashion which does not impair any other vehicle functionality.
Not like "oh we set this bit in some config file" but "we physically removed the telematics ECU, here's a photo of where it was".
@azonenberg @evacide That's a good start, but there are also lots of states that are going to start requiring everyone to put a phone home GPS device in their car because gas tax revenues are going down with increased hybrid and EV usage. So I'm not sure that states are willing to take that on.
Other things I'd like to see go away: uncontrolled UI changes, OTA software updates, non-tactile critical controls (e.g. wipers, lights)
Alien software, human hardware@azonenberg @eagerpebble @evacide why are those things even always active?
Make them only active when an airbag is triggered, or other cat alarm system is activated. Plus a manual (actual hardware) switch in the dash.
That would be a good law.
Make them only active when an airbag is triggered, or other cat alarm system is activated. Plus a manual (actual hardware) switch in the dash.
That would be a good law.
zach :verified:@eagerpebble @evacide someone decided to put the torment nexus on wheels.