No one tells you when you buy the car all of the shit you are agreeing to. This needs to be changed.
This car doesn’t let you drive over 80mph. It reads speed limit signs and has a database apparently. The owners manual says it will provide that data to law enforcement.
This is insane. There needs to be awareness of this so people can, at the very least, know to ask before they buy. As it stands no one even knows this shit until they sign the papers and look at the owners manual.
But if it has all those limitations, why would anyone buy it?
No one is reporting this, ford certainly isn’t putting it in their press material, and no one gets a copy of the manual to review before purchasing a vehicle.
To be fair, you can look it up on their website The fact that this is something you have to consider now when buying a car is ridiculous though…
Right but this is not an issue that’s in the public consciousness yet. No one thinks to read the manual or go to the website and check on how their privacy is going to be invaded by a fuckin car.
This shit is infuriating.
https://www.fordservicecontent.com/Ford_Content/Catalog/owner_information/2024_Ford_Mustang_Owners_Manual_version_1_om_EN-US.pdf
No one reads and understands it before they buy, but it’s out there
People that don’t actually know this or just accept it. Look at how many people use ring cameras and you can tell them that Amazon will hand the video footage to law enforcement , and they will say “oh yeah I have nothing to hide” or “Oh yeah but the camera is cheap”
The “nothing to hide” folks will probably change their tune when there’s a massive data breach and now the darkweb knows what time your house is empty
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I wish I could go back in time and slap whoever invented the phrase “nothing to hide.”
Also all these things he talks about you can just turn off lol.
Don’t want the car to send data? Turn it off…
Don’t want the speed limiter to be on? Turn it off…
Edit: lol why am I being downvoted? I’m right. Both are in car settings you can just turn off. Connectivity and speed limiter + traffic sign recognition.
Can you point to evidence that you can disable the speed limiter? I couldn’t find anything except in a Mustang forum that said the only way was through a hardware tuner.
I have the GT parked in my garage. The options to turn off the sign recognition and change the cruise control limiter are under vehicle settings in my sync menu.
Have you actually verified whether you can turn this connectivity off? I know on other new cars it’s embedded in the electronics with no on/off button.
And how do we know the dealer isn’t going to turn it back on after every service visit?
Like how after every Windows update all my settings get reset 🤣
Yeah, it’s a setting in the car infotainment system under connectivity.
You have like 4 options. One for each of the data types (so you can turn off cellular data but leave on GPS), and one to turn it all off. When it’s all off there is no data being sent to or from the car at all.
Love how lemmy just downvotes cause they don’t like that answer.
But they’re all ON by default, right?
Depends on the country of sale and what the dealer does with it.
Some countries it has to be law be off by default.