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There's just no good reason to have anything beyond the radio/nav etc in a car connected to the Internet. Remote start can be done with just the key.
You know what fuck builtin nav. Connect it to my phone and let that be it for navigation.
And same for music. What year is this 2010?
I like using the built in radio rather than my phone for music, but it doesn't need an internet connection, just a flash drive.
I suppose I'm a weirdo for not using Spotify like most people nowadays though
I use my phone for music... but i have a 256GB sd card installed in it.
A bit, I have a huge collection of CDs ripped to MP3 that are nowhere else digital streaming
I find the weird weird thing is to listen to local radio or satellite radio. I only do it for short trips where the radio turns on automatically and it's not worth the time to put decent music from the phone.
Plus if you use your phone for nav you can use whatever maps you like. My city is mapped pretty good on openstreetmap so that's what I use.
I would say even those don't need Internet. Navigation can be updated using a USB drive, and I have a phone for audio so I just need bluetooth.
The only network connection I want in my car is to notify emergency services if the airbags go off.
Things like live traffic require a connection though, and Google maps I think does the routing calcs off the device. Most people will use their phone for all that, but the use case is there.
I think the point is that there isn't a good enough reason to put internet in a car that negates the risk of it.
It is like adding lead to food. It's a cheap sweetener with no calories. You can argue that cheap sweeteners aren't important to you, but I don't think you can argue that it isn't a good reason. It just isn't a good enough reason to negate the risk.
if its not a good enough reason, that's literally not a good reason
you have misunderstood something.
not good enough means the downsides highly, severely outweigh the upsides. It's not that "I wouldn't use it and then you shouldn't have it either", it's that there are very good reasons to not have these in my car, or anyone's really, in a way where they cannot be removed!
frankly they aren't good reasons.
the first bunch provides info and abilities that are only relevant when you are in the car. this is like wanting to know your house's temperature when you are in the store, or on vacation. what the fuck you do with that information?
the remaining about the alarm and it being stolen, what are you going to do with this? go after them with your 4th car and a shotgun? let's hope they did not disconnect the batteries..
if you absolutely cannot live without these, you should by an extension that does this, instead of forcing this shit on everyone
sorry, I wanted to mean these:
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yes, why do you need a moving, online accessible high quality surveillance camera system is a real question.
I don't think you need this to report it to the police, the loud alarm and policeman on the road searching for the stolen car has worked well for decades. or at least I haven't heard of car theft in.. a pretty long time, so long that I don't even remember.
oh it would exist if laws would force car makers to not place unremovable tracking systems in the car by default.
but I that being said, think these tings do exist, in the form of little devices thay you can connect to your car's OBD port, and they have a GPS receiver and a SIM slot to do it's job.
obviously not. what we are discussing is optional and voluntary, because it is removable
These sound like "value-add module purchased at or after time of sale" reasons.
In short, they're features and not requirements.