Jeep owners are the perfect target for this. Not exactly the kind of people doing a lot of research before purchasing a vehicle. Or else they wouldn’t buy a jeep.
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Guilty as charged, I owned a total of 5 jeep/Chrysler/Dodge vehicles way back when. Moved to Infiniti, then Tesla (fucking got rid of it within a year) and now I have a Chinese BYD with every telematic disabled.
Haha. Yeah man, you’re not hyper focused on total cost of ownership. They know their audience!
I love how that saying this is a software glitch is somehow supposed to make it okay? Motherfuckers, you took time and money to develop the thing. In doesn't matter that it wasn't supposed to be deployed right now. It matters that it was developed at all.
This is my tinfoil opinion, but I wouldn't be surprised that it was done on purpose to gauge the public reaction and setting the pace of rollout.
The timing is too perfect knowing damn well that Republicans won't legislate that.
I design UI for systems infinately less likely to kill you when distracted than a vehicle interface.
The only possible glitch is that this is appearing before it was supposed to.
Being triggered specifically when the vehicle is stopped shows a lot of thought on the cover your ass for saftey lawsuits front, that was no mistake.
You can share my tinfoil if you'd like. I got enough for both of us.
Should we start a thread showing off our tinfoil hats collections? 🤣
The heck is "instant opt-out"? As opposed to what? Not being able to close the ad unless you buy the product?
I had literally just recommended that my brother in law check out jeeps for his next vehicle. I have just corrected that recommendation! No jeeps.
a glitch where we had our ad team write the marketing material and setup a call center that would process these policies on the backend and training the backend call center staff to process these policies and built out backend systems to store and process said policies and a mechanism to push ads to the car. Besides all the a total glitch
My 17 year old car is at almost 200k miles and I just dumped over $2k into it to keep it going to a quarter million miles to try and hold off having to buy something new.
I had to give up my '08 manual transmission rear wheel drive technodumb car last month due to it finally going downhill (in its operation and in the easiest direction to push it). Will miss the fun, and the privacy.
My condolences.
I buy used cars. I had an X-Trial I bought 8 years ago for £2000. It lasted 7 years. I did basic maintenance myself like brakes, oil, etc. on the end the flywheel needed replacing. To the scrap it went. Bit 2k for 7 years!
Cheaper than a car payment.... By a lot. I budget about 1500 a year and just act like thats my car payment.
At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.
[email protected] is an option.
But yeah, with all the telemetry they've tacked onto vehicles, feels like you need a digital and electrical forensics team to disable it all
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Jeep/Chrysler have always been banned from my life.
Garbage. Worse than any other American car company. They even managed to screw up cars made for them by Mitsubishi.
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If you can move somewhere with public transit, it has changed my life
Unfortunately, public transportation in my country is garbage, and I'm being considerate with that word.
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At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.
Based. Train, busses and bikes are superior.
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Why do I keep seeing companies blame shit like this on “a software glitch”? Like, fuckin, no it’s not. And no one believes your bullshit either.
I can't stand when they lie to us and it's not even plausible. I saw an ad for some technical school or something and it proudly proclaimed "Our only goal is for you to succeed". Like, no it fucking isn't! You're a for-profit business; your goal is to maximize shareholder profits while (hopefully) providing a service. It falls apart when you think about it for even a moment...
It’s a glitch that it rolled out today instead of next week.
That or the dumb fucks in charge of these companies still think it’s the 90’s where everyone thought that machines would suddenly gain sentience.
I haven't followed Kotaku for years. Did they give up on covering video games? Car manufacturing isn't even adjacent.
That was my immediate reaction as well. I guess the AI author forgot which blog it was posting to.
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