Comment on Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 10 months agoAs these cards age out, the cellular standard that they support will be eventually dropped and then they won’t work. Just like owning an old cell phone.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This has happened with 3G networked and older vehicles (OnStar has been a thing since the 90’s). People tried to unplug the OnStar hardware but they ran it through a CAN bus and it would disable the car (to prevent thieves from circumventing it).