I really hope the Slate truck is everything they say it will be. Its lack of spyware is a pretty compelling reason to buy one.
My biggest concern with it is Bezos’ involvement.
I looked it up now, slate truck. Seems like a good idea. I never cared for infotainment at all.
Same here. I wish Canada had a company making something similar since I’d rather not support the US economy. Choose your poison, I guess.
Sus that it’s another bezos company
He’s an investor, I’m not sure how big of a stake he has and I wish he didn’t have one but I’m happy to have an option to not be surveilled by my own vehicle.
“Sharing” implies something much less predatory than the actual relationship.
Let me go bring a gun to a bank and see if they’d like to share any of their money with me.
What they’re doing is more akin to rerouting the bank’s funds to your account, and buying off your choice of those in gov’t to make your rapidly growing scam “legal”. 😅
I have a 2010 Mazda Pickup. It doesn’t even share with me.
Not my 20-year-old car.
Without regulation, this will continue, and get worse. Remember to vote in every election you can, both local, and national.
What does voting have to do with anything?
If you were paying attention about automobile privacy, you would known that democrats signed legislation into law in 2024 that requires all cars sold in the US to have driver monitoring software.
https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-in-new-cars-by-2027
Partisan politics mean squat in the privacy sphere.
they squat on*
ftfy 🥲
Democrats aren’t campaigning on this stuff so I’m not sure how voting is going to help this particular issue. They don’t seem to care about it much.
So, like 7-Up, then.
Are you sure about that? OnStar has been a thing since what? The 90s?
It’s not OEM, though. Those idiot consumers only have themselves to blame.
Maybe the OG versions, but GM put onstar in basically every vehicle they made by like the mid 2000s.
Yes, but voting was over in 2024. People just haven’t gotten the memo.
Big Tech companies think they have solved advertising with infinite data. According to them, privacy can go fuck itself.
The irony is, you can try and advertise but I stopped paying attention a long time ago. Besides, I’m too busy spending all my money on living, fuel, and food. Good Luck Have Fun. And my cars are all over 20 years old. GG
Countries are selling out their citizens to car companies in the name of “traffic safety”
Hoopty-ass shitmobile drivers unite!
My car is doing no such thing, but it’s a manual that’s old enough to vote.
Don’t worry. The surveillance cameras are making up for that gap in the data.
rigs up ultrabright IR light arrays to Subaru
An arms race it is then!
But I don’t have a car.
And yet, it likely has an FB account anyway. ☝🏼
Wild if true
