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Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles

262 points · 235 comments · rafaelc

prasadvara · 1790886388 · focus · HN ↗
The ongoing theme of all these responses was shifting the blame to the consumer.
As expected. I think consumers also need to push back on these practices, but the problem is, majority of consumers are tech savy but not privacy savy.
1. slowin · 1790887238 · focus · HN ↗
  I'd love to push back, I'm not sure what that looks like though. I can't even get an open source/open hardware phone that's decent, let alone a car.
  1. ad_fontes · 1790888139 · focus · HN ↗
    You might want to check out Slate. It's about the closest thing to an open vehicle platform I can imagine.
    wiml · 1790889192 · focus · HN ↗
    Does Slate actually make any statements about the level of telematics/surveillance in their vehicles?
    kotaKat · 1790937338 · focus · HN ↗
    Preorder customer and heavy info-digger here on Slate:
    There's no actual wireless on the vehicle out of the box. There's a "secure gateway" module that has a USB Ethernet adapter hanging off it, then that hangs off a USB-C port just inside the dash panels. Job listings basically detail that it's going to be DTLS over USB to the truck to do all the CANbus magic and stuff.
    The telematics module also just hooks to a second USB port on the secure gateway that also has access to that same DTLS link.
    So far in the truck's development they don't even really have an app yet before launch but the truck's driving along very happy without it.
    <a href="https://www.cybercogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cybercogs_sgi_rev0d.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.cybercogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cyberco...

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