Wouldn't be surprised if in a few decades you see the ultra elite start favoring older maybe early 2010s at most cars. The risk surface of a modern car is astounding. I mean cellular connection and drive by wire, screw planting a car bomb, you just steer it off a cliff from your arm chair halfway across the world and it looks like an honest accident to boot. The old cars on the other hand are airgapped. You actually need physical access to sabotage them. Risk surface is so much lower.

I feel seen. I used to think rms was just a crank, but maybe he was right all along: I increasingly treat any closed-source software (and even some open-source--vscode for instance) as hostile and untrusted.

I was kinda wondering the same. Only issue will be when insurance companies refuse to insure you because they can't get the "commonly available" data.

This is the right way to deal with the problem. I would simply pull the fuse or unplug the cellular modem though.

Some cars you can just pull the fuse on the ECU with the modem.

I hate everything about newer cars except for the power/efficiency. And luckily I don't drive enough to care about that.

Yeah, my AI-slop-detector isn't very good, but this one really jumped out at me.

I'd look at the Consumer Reports page if you don't want to read the paper linked in a sibling comment: https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/personal-informa...

I think it does take away from the point. I could not be bothered trying to filter the information out of whatever this llm layout is.

Just read the paper instead: https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/paper....