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1. ourmandave · 1790888668 · focus · HN ↗

   Ha ha, you fools! No one is collecting my data from my 22-year-old Scion while I drive past Flock cameras every day.

   Wait...

   1. eckelhesten · 1790889602 · focus · HN ↗

      There’s “oh he’s at the grocery store” data,

      and then there’s “he’s driving in a way we don’t like, let’s make him pay more for his insurance” data.

      1. asdff · 1790891176 · focus · HN ↗

         Don't forget the banal in comparison "we've locked him out of hardware already installed in the car with a perpetual software license check"

         1. Barbing · 1790893606 · focus · HN ↗

            Mm, I don’t really care about that, at least assuming it can partially-counterintuitively lower the manufacturing cost of a car by a penny or two.

            Computer chips [used to?] end up getting nerfed and it saves resources/saves us all money. I can get over it, even though normally “the principle of the thing“ is a really big deal for me.

            OK it does stink for the used car market actually.

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