Comment on The Feds' Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy | Jon Miltimore

tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cars are computers. All those fancy features run on software. Software can be patched to get rid of unpleasant functionality.

    It’s not always easy, but it’s doable, and the more of these stupid features they add, the more people spend time working on undoing them.

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was wondering more about the off shutoff.

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      • tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh, sorry. American cars are require to ship with a feature that shuts the engine off at stop lights, and restarts it when you take your foot off the brake. It’s done to supposedly help the environment, which it doesn’t do in the least and is also incredibly irritating.

        So car hackers reconfigure their cars to disable that feature.

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Autoatart stop. It’s a “feature” of newer hasoline vehicles that allows them to save gas by shutting the engine off when you’re idling (at a stop light or similar) until you touch the throttle/gas pedal and the computer reactivates the engine. This assumes there isn’t significant load on the battery like there would be if you were using your heat/AC or even the radio.

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