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Cadillac here. I just unscrew the cellular antenna from the onstar module before leaving the lot. Looks like the onstar module is less conveniently located for bolts (it’s under my rear seats, I think it’s behind your screen), but that’s a good way to avoid collateral damage to other things on the same fuse. Since it’s a separate antenna from the gps, I even still get navigation, just without map updates. It’s all the good of a cell jammer, with none of the prison or fines. For now.

inb4 manufacturers start baking it into the fuel injection cpu, and spending (your) extra money with encryption to lock the "owner" out like modern phones

LMK if anyone finds the fuse my Kia uses to track my sex life per the TOS. Also unrelated, but please LMK if anyone finds my sex life. I seem to have misplaced it.

So if they're charging more for bad drivers, they'll charge less for good drivers, right?

If one company raises rates on bad drivers and uses the difference to offer lower rates to other drivers, they'll get more customers.

Infiniti put 3g chips in their car because they were cheap, now they don't work. Guess I don't need to worry.

Sometimes they will sell this data to insurance companies to raise your premium

Would it be illegal to fuck with whatever tech they use to spy on you like that so it falsely reports you drive safer than you do so your rates are lower?

This post makes me really glad I didn't buy a Chevy Bolt the last time I bought a car. I thought the whole subcompact electric thing was cool, but this is kind of insane.

I just so happened to be looking up how to disable telemetry on the new Ford Mach-E vehicles and found this incredibly helpful thread on how Ford handles this:

https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/threads/4g-modem-disabling-instructions.146860/

tl;dr: it’s also a simple fuse pull.

Likely the Bluetooth features are integrated with the same module that does OnStar, so keeping one and not the other isn't possible, unless the antenna for the OnStar is separate from the module and can be disconnected.

You could disconnect an antenna that is integrated with the module, but that requires disassembly of the module. Disassembly of the module may not be feasible.

Your first mistake is buying Chevy.

Could you share how you determined this?

I have a 2016 KIA with a similarly creepy system. The head unit is glued in, so disconnecting the antenna is not an easy task.

For older cars, if the only "smart" thing you have is GPS, you should be fine since it only receives and doesn't transmit.