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Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you (networks.imdea.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Fuck Cars.

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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I've been driving for 30 years. Do you want to guess how many times that's happened to me?

Meanwhile, I've apparently been living in a totalitarian surveillance state for at least a few years now, and you know how many times that's happened to me? I'll give you a hint, it's more than the number of times I've run over a nail causing me to drive around on low tire pressure without knowing it.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    What matters is the whole community. Statistically it happens to someone in your community. Society wasted a lot of fuel (read global warming) just on low tire pressure.

    Surveillance is a problem. So is global warming.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    That may have been the intention but I doubt it ever worked as effectively as they claimed it would. Besides, it will probably cost at least 1 AI data-center of carbon emissions to continuously surveil all these people with TPMS sensors, so the argument could be made that you're actually reducing carbon pollution at this point by removing yours.

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