Comment by bbarnett
1 year ago
This is true, but so far there are ways to disable much of this.
For example on a Ford, you can literally pull the fuse for the GSM modem. On a GM, you can pull the antenna from OnStar, and put a resister there in replacement... thus rendering it unable to communicate to home base.
This doesn't solve everything, but it at least stops the immediate phone home.
You can also buy cars that don’t need an immediate debugging
It seems such brands are vanishingly small.
Buying used/old doesn't work here, at least not for long. Lots of salt on the roads, cars older than 8 to 10 years are rust covered, and it doesn't help components either.
Not to mention, if everyone bought used, there'd be no used cars to buy.