It's the newest vehicle we've owned. Zero connection to the manufacturer.

Yeah when we get there. We have a whole shit ton of privacy issues to resolve before we go making arguments that cars should be online.

Neither of those stop the function of power steering and are easily repairable. Electrics fail and there is no repair other than a $5000 replacement.

You clearly have never wrenched so you may as we be quiet about topics you dont know. Also youre probably older than me 😅 i just have a lot more mechanic experience than most.

Wrong. Ive owned over 20 cars and never once had a throttle cable issue. Throttle cables on 50 year old vehicles work just fine. Several have had tps issues. And good luck buying one when they stop making the exact model for your specific vehicle when the factory in China quits making them.

Stop defending idiotic tech in cars that serves to only make shareholders money, like making everything a screen with subscription e brakes (joke).

You dont think electric door locks can be locked remotely ? They are tied into the ecu, of course they can. Throttles and brakes and steering are all electric and tied into the ecu. So I dont get if you are trying to say "this will never happen" or what.

If youre that ignorant , you better do some reading up because its damn scary.

If you think phones dont track you even when theyre off, look at protesters theyve arrested that had powered off phones. Its called shadow tracking (I believe).

Stupid argument I see all the time.

Answer: I can shut those off and unplug them or use a Faraday bag. You cannot do that with a new car if you need to go somewhere.

So you dont think cars made today (or from about 2016 ish to now) dont watch your every move and aren't remotely controllable from either the dealer or the government if they wanted to? It does not need to be a self driving car when your car has internet access, electric brakes steering and throttle and doors. It can all be controlled.

Like, theres many videos and articles testing and proving this and I'm not going to find them for you because its dead easy (someone posted some here already). Even a decade ago, Tesla locked a guys car down remotely thousands of miles away because he was installing some custom software on it and they didnt like that. What if that guy had a medical or other emergency and had to drive somewhere at that time? its not safe to allow cars to be remotely controlled and it sure as hell isn't good for privacy. Nowadays its much worse. Why are you so upset that people try to expose the corruption ? Are you an automaker?

But there indeed do exist cars that do that, so, technically he's correct. There's other cars that don't have self driving but can be hacked and remotely disabled while driving, IIRC the video I watched like, 4y(?) ago was some random Jeep SUV, they shut it down while it was driving on the highway. The video cameras are also not super cool, there have been cases of Tesla employees using them to spy on people (who, iirc, were fucking in a Tesla), the computer in the dash (as well as the cameras) are reporting your driving habits (selling your data) to your insurance companies so they can raise your rates, Ford (iirc) recently patented a driver facing camera that "detects if you're drunk or agitated" which, of course drunk driving is bad, but that's too invasive of a measure for me, personally.

And as self driving mode becomes more prevalent, that means it will be more models that actually can do the exact phrasing you're picking apart, he's still not wrong, he's just a little early on that one part.

It really is a significant issue, and only getting worse.

That was 11 years ago... A lot has happened since then—all the way to self-driving cars... You'd better come back to reality.

Oh, and IT + security incur huge costs, which companies are reluctant to pay, so they leave gaps in their systems. The people who report these issues are then targeted by the companies with legal action—precisely to ensure they don’t have to invest in IT.