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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      6 hours ago

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

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        5 hours ago

        I did literally that.

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

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          59 minutes 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…