Yes, Bluelink has a feature where you can set time and distance limits on your car, for valets and perhaps your teenagers. But it’s limited to notifying you of the breach.
Bluelink also has a vulnerability where a hacker can remote start your vehicle.
You can also, if your car is stolen, disable your car so it won’t start.
Therefore, Bluelink could be used by the government to be notified when you exceed their time and distance parameters and issue you a fine, if such a process were set up. And your engine could also be disabled if they deem a climate emergency and you’re only allowed to drive at certain times or locations.
Currently it’s ’for your benefit’, but clearly designed for future tyranny..
It's not just GPS, however. There is, for example, automatic lane assist - which eliminates the possibility to cross the white line, which DOES have to happen in some instances, say when slowly driving around a road-works section.
What about the kill switch, which is already in play with the pre-trip breathalyzer-test which is legislatively imposed on serial drunks. We had a co-worker who would ask for a lift on Monday mornings as early as 2018, because his car would not start. Of course he would reek of alcohol during the trip - for sure the employer lost money on this guy, who would do seriously mediocre work. In any case, those kill-switches could be expanded to 'save the climate'.
In fact, anything that feeds into a car-computer is suspect. We recently replaced all four airshocks with ole-fashioned springs, because the fancy airshocks were pinging the computer - and that would fail the warrant-of-fitness. Now, the car handles better. Bonus.
Ideally, one hides from this narcissistic governance abuse by investing in a 40-yr old car. Because they are classed as 'vintage' and therefore exempt from the rules. But, the cars from the nineties and noughties are arguably allright, since their computers are pretty crude.
I've been wanting to build a car that has no computer.
Yes, Bluelink has a feature where you can set time and distance limits on your car, for valets and perhaps your teenagers. But it’s limited to notifying you of the breach.
Bluelink also has a vulnerability where a hacker can remote start your vehicle.
You can also, if your car is stolen, disable your car so it won’t start.
Therefore, Bluelink could be used by the government to be notified when you exceed their time and distance parameters and issue you a fine, if such a process were set up. And your engine could also be disabled if they deem a climate emergency and you’re only allowed to drive at certain times or locations.
Currently it’s ’for your benefit’, but clearly designed for future tyranny..
i can only imagine these disabling features happening on already congested roads including highways. even 1 will ruin your trip to your destination.
And my wife wonders why I have 3 '9x Jeep Grand Cherokees in the back yard.
Often it is the women that want all the 'new' features.
Dave Chappelle said it best - men have nice cars, not because they like nice cars, but because they know women like nice cars
Precisely! No-frills, pre 2007 Jeeps are my favorite. You can fix them anywhere with just a handful of tools.
Now pair it with the "Climate Emergency" bullshit...and we have the formula.
Kill switches, climate emergency...
Read the contract when you buy a car.
How many pages is that.
30 in this case.
Time to disable the GPS on new cars.
They can't tell where you are if the GPS is disabled.
It's not just GPS, however. There is, for example, automatic lane assist - which eliminates the possibility to cross the white line, which DOES have to happen in some instances, say when slowly driving around a road-works section.
What about the kill switch, which is already in play with the pre-trip breathalyzer-test which is legislatively imposed on serial drunks. We had a co-worker who would ask for a lift on Monday mornings as early as 2018, because his car would not start. Of course he would reek of alcohol during the trip - for sure the employer lost money on this guy, who would do seriously mediocre work. In any case, those kill-switches could be expanded to 'save the climate'.
In fact, anything that feeds into a car-computer is suspect. We recently replaced all four airshocks with ole-fashioned springs, because the fancy airshocks were pinging the computer - and that would fail the warrant-of-fitness. Now, the car handles better. Bonus.
Ideally, one hides from this narcissistic governance abuse by investing in a 40-yr old car. Because they are classed as 'vintage' and therefore exempt from the rules. But, the cars from the nineties and noughties are arguably allright, since their computers are pretty crude.
If you disable the GPS along with rhe cell antenna, there shouldn't be any way they can communicate with the vehicle.
It's about cutting off outside access to the vehicle, not internal CANBUS communication.
I think you misunderstand what I am talking about.
If the 'internal' computer is flashing all sorts of warnings, then the testing station won't pass the vehicle as fit-for-the-road.
So, a wiring malfunction or some-such will fail the car, even if it is running perfectly. People will tend to believe the 'puter.
1984 ya say?
Don’t they own Boston Dynamics?