Worst thing is they are collecting info on what people do in the car. Here is an article on Nissan monitoring sexual activity inside car.
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dick_fineman@discuss.online 2 days ago
All I want is a car with modern engineering and simple technology. I’m fine with crank windows and a radio I can easily swap out. But I would like an engine that gets more than 7MPG and has crumple-zones that aren’t my face. I don’t need touchscreens and sensors for everything. And I sure as fuck don’t want the manufacturer pushing out “updates” that can brick my car.
arox@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 day ago
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
And thats just the beginning:
jfrnz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Article is clickbait trash. This was something found in the privacy policy. Your Nissan doesn’t have a “sex sensor” that phones home if you whip it out in the passenger seat.
arox@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 day ago
The very worst offender is Nissan. The Japanese car manufacturer admits in their privacy policy to collecting a wide range of information, including sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic data — but doesn’t specify how. They say they can share and sell consumers’ “preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” to data brokers, law enforcement, and other third parties.
From Mozilla’s findings
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 day ago
Well the very worst drivers are Nissan drivers so that tracks.
Has anyone even seen one in the wild without a spare tire, a broken body part, or an obviously very illegal paper tag?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
awww i wanted to get a lil freaky for my friend who works at nissan
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
My 2001 Tacoma get like 24 mpg I think, been awhile since I did the math. Anyways it does all you said, got a tape player crank windows, and a bench controlled by 2 springs and 2 levers.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This doesn’t satisfy the “crumple zone that is not my face” requirement.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I have a 2008 and got rear ended by a drunk driver. It totalled my car but I went to work the same day and didn’t need any serious medical care. Indeed I didn’t take it to my face but the ass. Why do people pretend like cars made in the last 30 years are death traps? They are the all metal behemoths from the 70s
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’ve been in a crash in a 1995 Toyota 4runner which used more or less the same body, head on into the back of a truck at about 50 due to break failure. I can assure you that old Toyotas are about as safe as you can get without it being modern and even then it’s a relatively minimum difference. A lot of the increase in safety started to happen with cars around 2000-2005 which given the lag time for a lot of these feature to see it in statistics means that that era of car is pretty damned decent.
Also it wasn’t my 4runner mine had its engine self destruct due to a shitty rebuild.
tatermangia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ineos Grenadier is close…still waiting on the aftermarket to come up with reprogramming tools
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ineos Grenadier
That is 86K. What the fuck. Everything I own is not worth 86k.
BanMe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Slate EV is supposed to come in mid-$20k range. Doesn’t even come with a stereo, you get your own that fits in the space, or just zip tie a Bluetooth speaker somewhere. Refreshingly utilitarian, I think things should be modular.
Jtotheb@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s Bezos sponsored, so take the good PR work with a grain of salt given the state of everything he and Amazon have touched
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wait, no speakers either?
Mac@mander.xyz 1 day ago
My 2014 Kia Rio has crank windows, no cruise control, 6-spd manual trans. No touchscreens–only buttons.
Car is very slow (1.6L non-turbo) but gets ~36mpg average. I’ve gotten as much as 40 when actually driving for mpg.dick_fineman@discuss.online 1 day ago
I think they were doing the Nissan Versa like that for a while too. But it’s definitely not common and should be for cars that aren’t economy-boxes. And just to lay my shit out, I guess, my progression was: 1991 Plymouth Acclaim, 1990 Chevy Caprice Classic (loved that car), 2000 Chevy Monte Carlo (it blew up!), 2007 Hyundai Tucson, 2012 Hyundai Tucson.
I AM in the market for a new car…eventually. Have replace the engine on this one already and know it’s on its last legs. But I don’t see anything out there that I actually like. I kinda liked the Challenger, I guess…but I honestly am thinking about going back to cars from the 90s/80s again. I legit miss my Caprice.
socphoenix@midwest.social 1 day ago
My 2016 versa is crank windows, no power locks, no cruise control, 5-speed manual transmission, no touch screen/complicated electronics in the dash. It’s been really nice minus I do miss cruise control.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Fuck dude, I drove 94 Acclaim across the country, and it was a pos then, but I miss that car. My current is a 05 Sierra, barebones, not even a radio anymore, I really like that it doesn’t have much to break, and it’s decently cheap to fix still
Mac@mander.xyz 1 day ago
A friend of mine had a Caprice Classic. Such a good car. It was soft and smooth and the economical 305 V8 made good torque while still getting good mpg!
dick_fineman@discuss.online 1 day ago
It was a boat on wheels. But mine only got 7MPG. And that “twilight sentinel” nonsense never worked right.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 day ago
A 1.6 in a car that light isn’t all that slow. That’s what, nine seconds? Not a race car, but cars used to be so much slower.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Yes, slow by modern (and my) standards but compared to older cars it’s quite good.
And while peak power is low it makes decent torque in the midrange and is tuned well for daily driving.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I suspect it now costs more to engineer and produce a window crank handle that will last the life of the car, than it does to stick a motor, switch, and couple wires in there. It’s also much more expensive to offer electric windows later then, because it will require a different window regulator, and now you’re producing and stock more part numbers.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My manual transmission Subaru Impreza has Android Auto and a Reverse Camera. That’s the most advanced part of the car. It’s a dinosaur otherwise, with a transmission and drivetrain that debuted in 1999 and an engine that’s rough but reliable. The instrument cluster has two gauges - speed and RPM. The rest are on a calculator LCD that displays numbers for fuel and miles travelled, and a billion different danger lights that tell you if there’s a problem somewhere. It also has electric windows and door locks. And cruise.
The problems the car has as it gets older are none of the electrical bits - they all work fine. It’s the rear wheel bearings, suspension bushings, and center differential that wear out over time. Ironically, the most basic, mechanical parts.
nailingjello@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What year is your impreza?
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 day ago
2018, so it’s a 5th gen
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You and me both.
Where are the shops retrofitting decent cars with electric engines? Gimme that EV 911 from 1988. . . for . . . 11 thousand? Okay fifteen.
bluGill@fedia.io 1 day ago
They exist, but hard to find. Most people doing this are hobbyists doing the conversion for their own fun. They might help you with your project but for liability reasons they are just helping.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I had to buy a 2008 car to get these things you listed
fartographer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I almost did something like this for my 1995 Exploder. Y’know how you can buy a crate engine and then *simply drop in a new engine? There are some companies that make electric motors that interface with your transmission and now you have an old vehicle with a new motor!
Before I could make any major decisions like that, though, one of my neighbor’s told me that his friend had been looking for that exact same year and color Explorer after she lost her car in a flood, so I gave it to her. I never really got too far in my research, so I don’t know much about the real cost and extent of work involved in these electric crate engines.
dick_fineman@discuss.online 1 day ago
You can’t just throw a crate engine in. My current car (2012 Hyundai Tucson) is a “California engine”. My family is in auto, and we went to a guy who replaced the engines on my uncle’s fleet. $6500 because the engine itself was so hard to source and replace with all the bullshit sensor, and an extra $1k for the rental I needed for 2 weeks while they tracked one down.
fartographer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh, hahaha, sorry. The asterisk in front of the “simply” was meant to reference some fake fine print. I totally forgot to add that, so congratulations! You’ve unlocked the hidden fine print!
^*Process description does not include all necessary steps to make motor or car functional. Commenter assumes no responsibility and should not be considered as a reliable source of information.^
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It would be amazing if there were a more open source option.
It’s unfortunate that cars are so big and complex to manufacture. With a just as complex a set of regulatory systems around verifying their safety and roadworthiness. I really don’t see something more open source being a realistic expectation at any foreseeable point going forward.
sours@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I was thinking the opposite it is amazing that we allow car manufacturers to have closed source vehicles at all when such huge amounts life and property are at stake. Every part of the designs should be inspectable by anyone.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Back camera, cruise control, no radio (data, fm, or am), no stupid fucking touchscreen interface, a dedicated phone holder, and I’m happy. My phone has plenty of sounds to play while I drive and I’ve literally never needed anything a car touchscreen has offered.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
While I tend to agree with most people here, simpler is better and fuck touchscreens in cars, but I do prefer to have a functioning AM/FM radio. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, hell it doesn’t even need USB/MP3/CD player or anything else, but living in a hurricane prone area, I like to be able to get emergency news reports even in the event the cell towers go out.
Katrina was no fun yo, especially when we found out the hard way that a chunk of the eastbound Interstate 10 bridge had collapsed. We sure could have used a working radio to find stuff like that out…
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’m curious to see if there will be simpler electric cars in the future. Like the bare minimum electric circuit to make the car go forward. I could see a DIY kit for something like that. But the security standards these days ask for way more sensors and cameras to reduce risks of accidents wich is fair tbh.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Keep an eye on Slate. Hope they do well
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
They won’t. Funded by Amazon, corporate tracking will still be mandatory.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
A user here emailed slate asking if there would be any tracking, and they responded that it would not, as it wouldn’t have the hardware to make that possible.
We’ll see if they actually follow through on that.
FEIN@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If someone can jailbreak their kindles then hopefully someone can jailbreak the car haha
DSN9@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
You mean the Bezos mobile? Not a chance in hell.
Ownership has been flipped upside down for modern EV owners (and actually a lot more). You don’t own the machine, nor the keys, you license the experience- software, data, and even the ability to start/ move the vehicle. 30k+ for remote access, EULAs, feature subscriptions to a connectivity mesh? Also the monthly connectivity costs and software updates for… how long?
I’m not sure EV’s are the brilliant solution to modern transport, entertainment perhaps but little to nothing to do with modern or futuristic transport.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s a corpo problem, not an EV problem. They could very easily make a perfectly fine EV that isn’t a motorized iPad, if they chose to. But they aren’t. The EV push just happened to coincide with the global ramping up of enshittification that had already begun for all cars regardless of their energy source.
ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m keeping a skeptical eye on them. I really like the concept obviously but remaining cautious for a number of reasons.
Obviously as the other replies mention, Jeff Bezos is one of the initial investors, but that’s also true of Rivian. The important distinction is you don’t have to get the massive tablet computer/nav/infotainment system that would be susceptible to these OTA updates.
Another reason is I was looking through available jobs that they were hiring for and a lot were AI-centric. It was unclear as to why, but obviously that just doesn’t sit right. Regardless of whether they use it for customer support, automotive design, or infotainment embedding, I can’t imagine a good reason and it was more than one type of position.
Evrala@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m hopeful for a future awd version.
I have no interest in driving a rear wheel drive in the snow.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Same here but also I don’t want a truck nor something with that low range. Aside from being not what I’m interested in , the “blank slate” concept is compelling enough to be very interesting. I’m definitely going to follow this.
For everyone reflexively hating on this “Bezos Mobile”, I’m well aware of the reputation Amazon built for itself. However they are promising something people could own. For a reasonable price. And even customize. Instead of jumping right to negativity, this warrants some optimism
otacon239@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I picture an electric car with almost no dashboard at all. Just one dial for speed and another for remaining charge along with your odometer if you feel you must have that info. Maybe estimated mileage, but even that’s just spare info to someone who’s used to a classic fuel gauge.
In a car, the interior should fall away and the car should become an extension of the driver. Only by feeling the need to preserve the car do you drive with the necessary attention to protect yourself.
People seem to treat cars like roaming living rooms instead of the farm equipment they really are.
_g_be@lemmy.world 1 day ago
An American worker spending 1hr each way commuting to an 8hr+1hr lunch job is spending 2 out of 7 of their free hours in this machine. It’s understandable that the demand for their vehicle to not be an oppressive environment would arise.
But I do agree that not all cars should be packed with these superfluous amenities
bluGill@fedia.io 1 day ago
Most people who are cheap enough to do without the amenities still want them and so will buy a used car with all the amenities over a new car at the same price without.