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Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies. (www.consumerreports.org)
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Data sent by vehicles and companion apps included locations, VINs, and other identifiers. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft were among the top receivers of driver data.

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[–] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The ECU in my 1991 Chevy k2500 is little more than a desk calculator that can turn throttle position into injector duty cycle and ignition timing. Good luck advertising companies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    OBD1 sucks, though. 1995 through 2010-ish (i.e. OBD2 but no telemetry) is much better.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    OBD1 is fine if you know how to deal with it. The second generation throttle body fuel injection from gm is crude but works as are most of the obd1 systems... They're usually simple enough that no advanced diagnostics is ever needed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    OBD1 is fine if you know how to deal with it.

    You should tell that to the multiple mechanics that have just flat-out refused to work on my '94 Toyota because it isn't OBD2.

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