I could waste my time explaining or you could Google it. Long story short is that there are many ways to send information that don’t involve the internet at all, and you’d have to get a mid 90s car if you didn’t want any data sent at all. They got worse in around 2012 when more protocols were added as well
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ArtificialLink@lemmy.ca 10 months agoGo ahead and explain. Cuz there’s nothing internet connected on my car.
NotSoCoolWhip@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ArtificialLink@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I could waste my time explaining or you could Google it.
Sounds to me like you’re talking out your ass. Otherwise you could just explain it instead of telling me to google it. You did “waste your time” by even responding at all.
rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
My parent’s Hyundai had no customer-facing internet-related features on the car. Still had a cellular radio for telematics. A potential tell is an SOS button. (That’s a non-issue since it’s 3G now and that went bye-bye but 4G is going to be around a while)
But my similar age Sorento had nothing that I could find. So it’s possible.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ford started shipping all of their cars with one in 2015. I linked an article showing that somewhere up there. I’ll edit to post it here too.
ArtificialLink@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Except I don’t have sync connect. I have an old sync which as far as I can tell has no telemetry and is completely defunct considering it doesn’t work with anything anymore.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You have sync 2. Because that is the standard sync system on your vehicle. It became standard on all Ford models in 2015, 2-ish years before your car was manufactured. Believe whatever you like, but please read the article.