That’s true, I will give you that. And I am someone who generally loathes prequels, because I can never get into the story. I couldn’t care what happens to Anakin, because he *must* become Darth Vader. I don’t care about Padme, because the *must* die at the appointed time. Knowing the eventual outcome nullifies the…

Starlink, OnStar, etc. are literally spyware.  I wouldn’t even consider owning a car with such features.

The problem is making a small car ain’t cheap. There’s only so far you can get in material savings alone. So the market actually has to value owning a small car (paging city dwellers that want to park), something people don’t do in large numbers in the States.

Yes, we need more basic inexpensive cars, especially now that the Mirage is being discontinued. Also, the Yaris had one of the best ad slogans of all time:

You can’t just sell a cheap car on the selling point that it’s cheap. It’s got to have some identity other than ‘cheap’. They need to have a Yaris GT to sex it up and give it some identity.

I believe you just described how the following things were invented:

This is certainly better than the old way....

Most likely to send an alert to...somebody. I suspect it’s more so for an app if you lend the car to your kid, you can get an alert if the vehicle goes somewhere you don’t want them to.

WE HEARD THAT!
—Toyota

In my Tacoma all I had to do was pull the fuse for the Data Collector Module, fortunately. It didn’t have anything other than that. That also killed my bluetooth microphone, which justified my decision immediately. Toyota doesn’t need access to my mic. Fuck ‘em.

Yep. Just disconnect the OnStar/StarLink/MyStar/Whatever antennae and put terminators on the RF ports. (Might have to convert them to SMA first.)

Star Wars died the day Greedo shot first.

“That means that any Subaru on the street with a visible license plate could theoretically be accessed with this vulnerability.”

He got drunk, he saw one of these things, and he had a fateful idea. In that order.

“So how did he die?”

It's a cool stunt and halftime show bike. I don't know if it has real world applicability due to the friction drive 

If Phil Murphy is so concerned about poor folks getting into Manhattan, then he should ask Trump to force the removal of fares for PATH and NJ Transit trains/buses into NYC too.

Leaving cans of soda in a freezing car is also not great. 

Look at Scrooge McDuck here, leaving EGGS in the car like it’s nothin.

Hey, Xenu’s gotta upgrade from DC8's eventually... 750 million years is a hell of a long operational life.