A local city proudly mentioned on the news that they had a system that could track TPMS sensors. Pretty much all cars after 2008 uses TPMS sensors that each broadcast a unique identifier to the car. They aren’t hard to remove, and you can buy valve stems that fit your car (0.452 hole) at any auto parts store.

Yeah, a couple problems with that:

You’re going to have a tire pressure light on forever.

There’s a reason these are mandated. They’re critical safety (and efficiency) systems.

As always, these are systems of convenience, and the alternative is to check your tire pressures every day before leaving home.

Older cars use a wheel speed sensor-based TPMS. It’s not as effective or reliable but it also doesn’t emit any signals that can be read by other devices.

I live in Canada and my snow tires haven’t had functioning TPMS in years. I do have a tire pressure light on forever, and they’re not mandated.

Cool. Did you come here just to tell us that you’re proud to drive unsafely or what?