How many more years before me never owning a car and never driving is enough to put me on a list?
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
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I won't own anything made after 2015... That's when LTE chips started becoming standard in cars...
I told my wife, my next car will have a carbuerator.
Glad my 2018 car only had 3G which I had removed at the dealership due to it causing battery drain so I’m good!
Yeah... 2015 was about where cellular connected cars started being ubiquitous... And of course car manufactures were too cheap to put two computers in the car (one for infotainment, the other for engine management) so the modem has direct access to the ECU, which means throttle control, brakes, steering(?!), everything.
A carburetor is a step too far, you invite misery, do you hate yourself? Take care, lol.
But yep would love to see more folks keeping old cars running, I won't be taking the plunge into "~mortgage and routinely operate my own bubble of dystopian hellscape", think I'ma pretty much lifetime "pass" on that flavor of nastiness.
Some of the happiest moments of my childhood were getting a holly six-pack dialed in perfectly on my old Javelin... And balancing a six-pack is tricky as hell.. ;-)
I'm a FIRM believer in fix-first... Too many people treat cars as disposable... and I maintain that keeping a 60 year old classic on the road is better for the environment than any new car... We (the world, not just the US) produce nothing but crap these days...cars have a life-expency of about 5 years, 10 at the outside (if you're a non-BMW built Toyota that is)
My 2014 is 12 years old and still runs like it's brand new... I'll get another 15 years out of it easily... And when the engine dies, I'll replace it.
The only thing that kills cars permanently is rust..rust is the only true killer.
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Same sort of thing coming to the US because of course.
I just bought an EV that was made before 2020. I'm going to learn all about rebuilding EV batteries.
So, a couple of things...
For a real time warning system, there's no need to actually record anything. Monitoring the video feed with no record capability should be fine.
Second, this sounds super easy to defeat with a printed photo card and a couple of Googley Eyes. 👀
"Super Easy to Defeat" is the now. They don't care about that.
They just need you to accept it, and move along.
In a few years time, it will not be "super easy to defeat" but will be standard practice and accepted law.
By that stage it will likely be too late to do anything. They will have tied it in with chat control and all of our data.
Can you imagine the freedom that will be discovered 50 years from now in a trend, when people decide to ditch their personal devices and live like they used to 70, 80 years ago (maybe even 60).
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Clarkson was a step ahead of us this time.
Soon enough, If you defeat or try to defeat the government surveillance system, it will probably be against the law
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Nope, fuck-no, not even close. Never going to fucking happen. I have dashcams inside (pointed out) but I keep the mic muted because I don't need any of my ramblings recorded publicly.... (I also have it set not to record speed.. for obvious reasons)
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It's not wether it's easily fooled or not. The thing is, I am not sure most of us agree with this regulation. So is this democratic after all?
And if it is, then people are dumb, stupid.
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The U.S. as well
Fuck this shit 100%
I always bought old used cars anyway.