Nouvellalia comments on BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They're hooked into the drive system. That would just shut the car down. You'd have to also significantly alter the software and the modem. I'm with you though. I'll be buying used and just be swapping the drive system for electric whenever that becomes the norm.

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[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

That's free money for the buyer in a lawsuit.

We get all the downsides of private ownership with none of the upsides. Meanwhile, the billionaires get all the upsides of private ownership with none of the downsides. Fuck that!

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[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

You agree to the cameras when you buy the car, and it's a system that is about to be mandatory under federal law? What would you sue for?

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[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I can operate the car as I see fit once I take posession of it.

Whether the camera can continuing spying is up to me if the car is mine.

If the vendor has other ideas, they will lose in court.

The best they can do is try to condition services like warranty repairs, or software updates on my compliance, but that has to be tested. They may be compelled to provide some minimum level of service no matter what.

In other words, what's mine is mine to control.

They would need to rent the car instead of selling it if they didn't like letting go of it.

I am already generous. I don't feel the slightest need to be polite or generous to someone or some entity, or a process, I didn't like.

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