Meanwhile, directly below this post:

Excluding hacking, these devices are not sending all of the sound they “hear” back to corporate servers - imagine the volume of storage needed to store all of that. It is obvious from monitoring the network traffic to these devices that they are listening for their “wake up word” (e.g. “Alexa” or “Hey Siri”) before…

1998 - Don’t get in stranger’s cars, don’t meet people from the internet

I don’t remember “never give a website your payment info”. I remember “never give a stranger your payment info” but people have trusted like, eBay for... a while.

Remember when the Internet was evolving in the 90s and everyone said you should never give a website your real information let alone your real payment information? I don’t think Bezos is worth $100 billion because we are giving Amazon fake addresses and credit cards every time we make a purchase.

I have one in my garage, and a lot of tools/lighting in the bay are smart switched so i can turn things on and off. Lower flood lights to light up the bottom of the car? “alexa low floods on”. Need air compressor? “Alexa air compressor on”, to create reminders “Alexa remind me to pay someone else to replace a fiat 500…

Can’t these arguments be made about every phone and most apps also?

This, look at Chief wiggum etc.

People’s sensitivities is getting entirely out of control. I’m hispanic and I don’t find it offensive if people put on racial stereotype costumes for halloween. I grew up loving the Simpsons, and Apu was one of my favorite characters. In fact, I love doing accents, and one of my best accents is an indian accent.…

This is total bullshit. Apu is regularly shown as one of the few intelligent, competent, good-hearted people in a cast of dozens of insensitive morons. He helped Lisa understand that it was okay to be a vegetarian. He was a Pin Pal. HE WAS IN THE BE SHARPS, GODDAMMIT!

Really? Do you have industry average of such incidents? Has Tesla been found guilty of such behavior before (especially by management)?

Media has a laser focus on Tesla news so one may feel that Tesla is doing something “evil”. In the company of 33,000 such incidents will always happen.

Let the judge pass his verdict…

So, Sam — How many comments do you need down here saying “Android has had per-app battery usage stats for years” before you correct the article? Or is accuracy just not a thing we do around these parts?

Stock Android has had it for years as well.

Samsung, (and probably others) have been doing this for years as far as I know.

You beat me to it. Android as a whole has been light years past iOS in terms of system settings, notifications and all around UI customizations. The battery and data usage statistics have been baked in to Android since at least 5.0...

Two nitpicks:

I am always interested in what people have to say about their 3 to 4 year old car before I buy one. Not so interested in the the well-respected publications reviewing brand new cars. They are you know, brand new.

You mean the color grey? If so, you’re right. Grey is the color associated with neutral.

When I say private I’m referring to government run/controlled business.