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    Car Owners Should Control Data Collected By Cars

    https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/05...lected-by-cars

    Bill Hanvey, president and CEO of the Auto Care Association, argues that car owners (or lessees) should be the only ones who can control their car's data. "He or she should be aware of the data the car transmits, have control over it and determine who can see it," Hanvey writes. Many have argued this position for the privacy angle, but Harvey takes a different facet of this conversation, pointing out that carmakers control our data to limit where we get repairs or services done. If policymakers don't act on behalf of consumers, Hanvey writes, car and truck owners may be forced to go to select service centers for repairs, circumventing the more than 180,000 independent repair shops across the country that have all the tools needed to work on today's newest cars, but lack access to the necessary diagnostic information needed to complete the job. An anonymous reader shares the report:

    Because of the increasing complexity of cars and the Internet of Things, data is critical to repair and service. When carmakers control the data, they can choose which service centers receive our information. They're more likely to share our data exclusively with their branded dealerships than with independent repair shops, which could have the edge in price and convenience. However, independent repair shops currently make 70 percent of outside warranty repairs throughout the country. There are more than 180,000 independent repair shops across the country; most have all the tools needed to work on today's connected and complex cars, and most of today's highly trained service technicians can perform anything from basic tuneups to sophisticated electronic diagnostics. But without access to car data, they're working blindfolded, unable to see the diagnostic information they need. The solution is simple. The only person who should control car data is the car owner (or lessee). He or she should be aware of the data the car transmits, have control over it and determine who can see it.

    Digitization of the auto industry is, ultimately, a good thing. Today's connected cars are paving the way for autonomous vehicles and vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and eventually vehicle-to-infrastructure communications making our roads safer. But unlike Alexa and Nest, consumers are unaware of the degree to which their own car collects and processes data. It's clear, because of its value -- as high as $750 billion by 2030 -- carmakers have no incentive to release control of the data collected from our vehicles. Policymakers, however, have the opportunity to give drivers control -- not just so that they can keep their data private but also so that they can share it with the people they want to see it. This will let car owners maintain what they've had for a century: the right to decide who fixes their car.
    1776 > 1984

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    Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.

    The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide

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    I would imagine that one day law enforcement will have access to all the mobile cameras. They will be able to have every movement captured and want access. Kind of how in the past they would get video from an ATM or private security footage. Soon they will demand your automobile footage not just to prove where you were but to see every angle anywhere on any given day.

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    Digitization of the auto industry is, ultimately, a good thing
    No.
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

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    When cars are truly autonomous there will be no need for every person to have them. You will want one and it will be at your doorstep warm and ready to transport you. It will drop you and go directly to the next person. Your choice from the newest Luxury car to the oldest Heap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Digitization of the auto industry is, ultimately, a good thing
    No.
    +REP
    1776 > 1984

    The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an
    Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.

    The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide

    Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled

    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Our central bank is not privately owned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schifference View Post
    When cars are truly autonomous there will be no need for every person to have them. You will want one and it will be at your doorstep warm and ready to transport you. It will drop you and go directly to the next person. Your choice from the newest Luxury car to the oldest Heap.
    Nope,,

    It will take you where you have permission to go.. when you are allowed.
    and that assuming that it even works,, currently not ready for prime time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    Nope,,

    It will take you where you have permission to go.. when you are allowed.
    and that assuming that it even works,, currently not ready for prime time.
    Yup, this.

    Bad weather, no car for you.

    "Green" volume restrictions, no car for you.

    Cop "lockdown", no car for you.

    The list of "crises" where you will not be permitted to move is almost endless.

    Not to mention the fact that there are still some of us who do not want to be reduced to mere meatsacks, sitting idly by while finger $#@!ing a phone.

    Some of us still enjoy driving.
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11



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