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.

Probably because you can read a license plate from a dashcam video or even from across a street or a few cars back. Quickly and easily reading the stamped VIN on the dashboard while the car is in motion... Not so much.

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

I don’t understand why the majority of consumers still think always-on connectivity is a great feature to have in cars. I won’t buy a new vehicle unless I’ve already figured out how to physically disable that connection the day I buy it. I have a cyber-security background, and I know most, if not all, manufacturers do…

Say what you will about how easy it is to steal someone’s wallet, but at least you have to actually be NEXT to them to do that.

This just makes it possible for anyone with an email account to steal your ID.  

For the mathphobes — a 25% price increase on $50K car puts it at $62.5K, which is bonkers.  I’d think that’s unattainable for at least ~50% of the population. So then watch used car prices jump by at least 20% due to massive demand. So then watch car thefts increase accordingly, and Uber/Lyft prices going up, etc.

They need to make a show license but lock phone mode at a minimum

You couldn’t pay me enough to hand my unlocked phone to a cop, not sure why anyone would feel comfortable with that.

And hilariously there are still people who are against body cams. The only reasoning I’ve ever seen anyone use is “they’ll just turn them off” and like, make that a punishable offense then?? There’s literally no reason not to want police officers to have body cams unless you are overtly against holding them…

See, the problem here is that everyone assumes that they’re the good guy with a gun. And unfortunately, all those good guys are tryhards who really REALLY want to show just how good a guy they are and so the second something happens, out comes the gun and... this.

Hey, just because you’re not a chickenshit coward afraid of your own shadow and will fire at anyone or anything because you’re so paranoid doesn’t mean... er.. shit, I don’t know how to finish this sentence, so I’m just gonna end it...... here.

Pretty clear where his penal code was standing...

This country’s gun culture is fucking off-the-rails absurd. 

I would totally shop at the “Boobs and Whatnot” store

Yeah, “texting while driving” is an actual crime.

“Then again, if he’d killed someone other than a fire chief, he may have gotten off scot-free.”

The amount of outright lying exposed by cops since the invention of the bodycam is truly startling. They know they are being recorded, and yet still lie constantly and commit crimes, to the point that basically anything before, say 2010 or thereabouts, we should assume all the cops lied all the time, about everything.…

“To cover up his tracks, the 28-year-old told investigators he had been looking at texts sent by colleagues”

I replaced my Model 3 with an EV made in a country where Musk could have been arrested for that salute. Irony.