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Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles

262 points · 235 comments · rafaelc

  1. 1vuio0pswjnm7 · · focus · HN ↗
    If cars are "smartphones on wheels" then who pays for the cellular subscriptions

    Smartphones generally allow the user to disable cellular data ("mobile data")

    If cars are "smartphones on wheels" then why not turn cellular data off

    If that's not possible then perhaps cars are not "smartphones on wheels"

    The ability to control whether cellular data is on or off is argubaly an important "feature" of the smartphone. Otherwise, why include it

    1. kube-system · · focus · HN ↗
      1. it's a metaphor

      2. there are in fact smartphones where you cannot disable cellular data

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