This us one if the stupidest things I have ever seen. Has this person ever owned a car?!?! Some have built in GPS electronics and wifi now, and even if they dint you are registered and tagged 5 ways to sunday.
One thing i recently learned is that a lot of cars also have a data-recorder that saves info about the cats speed, braking, g-forces, etc in the event of an accident and the police can use that data to prosecute the driver.
Not necessarily against that feature, but if we are on the topic of tracking...
the auto company or some third party, eg. to extract money from you
I think it's generally used to give a discount since they will need to assume a "worst [or at least worse] case" if they don't have any way of knowing how you drive. It's also used by people who drive short distances or not very often and have per-mile insurance.
The Tire Pressure Monitors on your wheels constantly send individually identifiable radio transmissions. These aren't in any kind of central registry, but you can walk by someone's car, read the TPMs, then set up monitoring stations to read TPMs and find out where a car goes.
This us one if the stupidest things I have ever seen. Has this person ever owned a car?!?! Some have built in GPS electronics and wifi now, and even if they dint you are registered and tagged 5 ways to sunday.
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One thing i recently learned is that a lot of cars also have a data-recorder that saves info about the cats speed, braking, g-forces, etc in the event of an accident and the police can use that data to prosecute the driver.
Not necessarily against that feature, but if we are on the topic of tracking...
:kitty-cri-screm:
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I think it's generally used to give a discount since they will need to assume a "worst [or at least worse] case" if they don't have any way of knowing how you drive. It's also used by people who drive short distances or not very often and have per-mile insurance.
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The Tire Pressure Monitors on your wheels constantly send individually identifiable radio transmissions. These aren't in any kind of central registry, but you can walk by someone's car, read the TPMs, then set up monitoring stations to read TPMs and find out where a car goes.
I always wondered how they wired sensors into tires. Guess I'm not surprised that the answer is they didn't.
Thinking about Tesla saying they want their FSD cars to be able to impound themselves.