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we live in a fucking dystopian nightmare, i hate it here
I would be a bit more in agreement if they added things like automatic speed throttling based on the current road’s speed limit. That would be a big advancement in safety. But I assume people will readily keep buying cars with constant surveillance, however find it unacceptable if they can’t break the speed limit.
Even ebikes are going to shit with all their DRM, if you want a high end one
I’ve been riding motorcycles for a couple decades and now that they’re all fancy and computer controlled, most bike have their ECUs cracked within a couple years. Granted most of the time it’s to remove Euro-5 emissions controls 🙄, or remove speed limiters. But could this be an option to disable car surveillance?
I recognize car companies will probably retaliate by saying you voided warranty, but so far most motorcycle companies don’t do that.
There are those still content with gas engine performance.
I sincerely doubt this will be limited to EVs going forward.
Just because they have parents doesn’t mean it’s happening
Who bought it?
🤡 <—
Is Ford the only pickup? Vote with your wallet like you’re supposed to.
I’m the rube.
I’ve been privileged to have enough money that I didn’t need to repair my stuff when it breaks. I’ll just buy a new one. I’m generally talking big devices like house appliances and cars and I will still repair them: I.e replacing a gasket on my clothes washing machine, general maintenance on cars like oil, belts, etc. I’m not a monster.
But when the maintenance cost became similar to just replacing the device outright, I’d just buy a new device. Hey, upgrades are fun.
Until a few years ago.
Modern devices are just absolute shit: They spy on you, requiring internet access for a fucking dishwasher to function; Your car might now have a remote disable feature, or cameras that tattle if you drive while looking tired; They are made of the cheapest materials and designed to fail to force you to get the newer model.
I know this was a thing a while ago, but I’ve become more aware of it recently, and I’m worried that I might have some of the last pieces of non-smart spy-tech that I can easily get.
In 2010, I wanted a 2015 car with bluetooth, keyless entry and lane assist kinds of features.
In 2026, I want a 2015-era thing, if not one from before then.
My father has a fridge in his garage that has been mostly used for storing left-overs for ages. That fridge was the one I scribbled on with a marker when I was a tiny kiddo. I’m in my 40s. How long has your fridge existed?
I’m now spending more time learning how to maintain my stuff so that my non-internet-connected fridge lasts me until after the apocalypse.
unnecessary divisiveness.
no one is better than another for buying X over Y because X buyers are stupid for purchasing from X because Y is clearly superior.
all companies are trying to fuck us over. sooner or later they all go as scummy as possible and they won’t care. voting with your wallet at that point will be impossible or a race to the bottom. stand with your fellow common man and say “this sucks, let’s target the bigger picture together and make sure this can’t happen anymore.”
By 2027 it’s going to be all cars. There was a federal law enacted in 2021, look it up. Then start calling your congressman and senators.
According to Mozilla research, popular global brands — including BMW, Ford, Toyota, Tesla, Kia, and Subaru — can collect deeply personal data such as sexual activity, immigration status, race, facial expressions, weight, health and genetic information, and where you drive.
You cannot vote with your wallet if everyone is doing it, we need privacy laws and enforcement. The situation is insane.
A company is collecting movement data of millions of people? Raid their fucking headquarters and make them delete it.
People buying vehicles that have LTE connections and then complaining about connectivity problems deserve exactly what they get.
it’s getting hard to not get that. Anything that’s onstar capable still calls home even if you don’t pay for the service, you just don’t get the benefit from it
Don’t buy new cars then? Not like there’s a shortage of used cars in the world. It’s better to prevent waste anyway.
Is it really though? While few new vehicles are “cell-less”, countless relatively new used vehicles are not only “unplugged” but also less than 1/2 the price of the identical “new” version of that model.
So, people are buying those trucks because they watched too many horror movies.
Link to article?
there are a bunch, here’s an easy one to find
I mean you don’t own public transit anyway so maybe this will renew a public transit push.
Good to see rural truck bros starting to learn what supporting authoritarians will get them.
but it sure isn’t good to see what THEIR actions get ME!
Theyre a little too late, actually a lotta too late
More reasons to own a bike, the government can’t do shit!
In time of crisis bikes are THE best transportation mode.
Nah , dirtbikes are. Fast, nimble, can go off road.
In a crisis, every bike is a dirtbike.
Yeah, canoe or kayak are also good choices. They are basically the bikes of the sea.
Don’t take a canoe or kayak out into blue water. They are really only useful in brown water.
Sea kayaks are a thing, one dude got from Germany to Australia in one in the 30s.
Huh, TIL. I wouldn’t want to be on a craft that small in the ocean.
Open ocean is still a bad idea for lots of reasons, there’s little room for navigation equipment or food or water or emergency supplies or a way to dry off and get warm… But they seal up pretty well so you won’t sink and rolling upright is a pretty basic skill.
Is there really much need to go more than a few miles from shore though?
What if car industry sponsored government doesn’t allow bike lanes?
That’s the magic, I then bike off road.
I wasn’t asking for permission.
You don’t need bike lanes to ride!
Only to ride safely.
You need bike lanes to encourage more people to ride
Not many people are willing to take a lane
Not yet.
Not ever!
Ask New Yorkers what it was like before they made it legal to ride in streets again.
You used to get a ticket for leaving the bike lane when say, a cop car was parked in it.
As someone who always hated to get stuck behind a bike while driving, I like bike lanes because it means the bikes never get in my way.
I’m opposed to a vehicle that maxes out at 20mph riding in a lane that’s 35mph or above. For safety reasons as well as the inconvenience. I always felt nervous passing bikes on the road, and often the cyclist would look at me like I’m an asshole for it, but ain’t no way I’m going all the way to where I’m going doing half the speed limit, and it’s selfish for someone to think I should just because they chose to take a slower vehicle.
Bike lanes solve this problem. Bikes and cars go different speeds, and each has their own lane so they don’t get in each other’s ways and there are no close calls.
I don’t understand why car people are opposed to bike lanes.
If I’m correct, roads were for everyone, then they decided to make it only for cars and the rest has to fight to have small strips dedicated for them because they supposedly get in the way.
And about the cyclists. They might be assholes, or you might be passing too close or too fast.
Different classes of vehicle that have significantly different speed capabilities should have separate lanes. Bikes, tractors, horse-drawn buggies; it’s a safety hazard to force them to share a lane with automobiles.
I try to minimize the amount of time I’m in the wrong lane of traffic. If a car comes around the next corner while I’m passing, the cyclist is gonna be a lot more upset when I have to suddenly swerve back into the right lane. So I pass as quickly as possible. If he wants me to crawl past only doing a couple mph faster than he’s doing, well, that’s not gonna happen.
Also, if my car doesn’t accelerate very fast, I need to get up to speed in order to pass. It’s not just a quick little blip when I’m starting from 15 or 20 mph. So if it makes him nervous when my engine revs, maybe he shouldn’t be riding a bike in traffic?
I can go slower if I stay in the correct lane, but that gives the bike less space. I can give the bike more space by going into the other lane, but then I’ll have to go faster. Pick your poison. I’d be a jerk if I passed both close and fast. But either close or fast is a practical necessity, and if you get upset that I didn’t do neither then you’re the jerk.
Or roads are too narrow for the guy who can’t even hit half the speed limit to be safely passed and is now blocking all traffic…
@Korhaka @RockBottom Keep your old bikes in good working order, they’ll probably start requiring tracking devices on new ones soon.
Should be easy enough to remove for regular bikes, ebikes might be a little more annoying.
If you can’t disassemble your Ebike with a few spanners and a few allen keys then you bought the wrong Ebike.
It cracks me up to see bike companies adding wireless electronic shit to bikes, like, shifting and turn signals. Those bikes will die while my 2008 trek hybrid keeps rolling.
Man an e bike is the shit though if you live in a hilly city, that one is def not a gimmick lol
It’s a gimmick if it requires phone app or internet connection. An electric motor doesn’t need to connect to a server in order to work.
The most advanced electronics on my light with 3 different modes that switch when you press the button.
That’s not how patents work.
You know what? Fine. Don’t elaborate, I don’t care anyway.
I can elaborate, I just thought it obvious.
Companies don’t patent things because they have a product and they want to sell it, because they think it may make them profit in the future or even because they thin it’s a good idea in general.
Companies get patents when they find an idea novel enough to patent it. They want to have big portfolio of patents for two main reasons:
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investors like it. They think the company is innovative and intellectual property adds value to the company. it basically looks good to have a lot of patents
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it’s ammunition in patent wars. If your competitor tries to sue you for infringing on their patents you can always find some patents in your portfolio where you can claim that they infringe them and sue them in retaliation. A lawsuit can turn in to a negotiation. The more patents you have the more protection from lawsuits
Patenting something doesn’t mean company is about to turn it into a product. It just means they managed to patent something. When I worked in IBM the company was giving bonuses for successful patent applications. It was a requirement for some higher managerial positions to get some patents for the company. The process was simple: you send your idea to the lawyers, they check if the idea is patented already, if not they apply for the patent. It had nothing to do with IBMs business plans. It was purely legal evaluation.
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Bicycles are vehicles. I definitely own it.
Can we fucking give a shit about privacy now? Like seriously how many final straws do we have to see before people see this as a serious political issue? Fuck.
