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I don't give cars access to my contacts It seems that many people are less smart than you are. Every rental car I've driven in the last six or seven years has
by reaperducer 4y ago
I don't give cars access to my contacts
It seems that many people are less smart than you are.
Every rental car I've driven in the last six or seven years has had some previous renter's entire contact list synced to the info-tainment system.
People are just too used to pressing "yes" buttons to get on with their lives.
- acomjean 4y agoI bought a used car (2010 Honda) with built in car gps unit. It’s not great but it’s always on. It had all the previous owners address look up history. Good argument for using your phone..
- sitkack 4y agoThis occurs not because the user decided to sync contacts, but because they wanted to play music. And both the auto manufacturer and the phone colluded to sync all contacts. iOS at least now has a pair only music controls.
- Arrath 4y agoWe're finally seeing things like guest or hotel login modes for smart tvs/netflix/hulu etc where it wipes your credentials every time you turn the tv off. I wonder why phones don't have a "Connecting to rental" kind of option in their bluetooth configs. Like you I see rental cars with all kinds of crap in the pairing history.
- hunter2_ 4y agoOr car infotainment systems with rental mode would be awesome. Like if every time you pair a phone, the car asks if you want it paired indefinitely, or for N days. User sets N based on rental duration, and the car wipes the data after that. Granted, it's much better for the phone to not send contacts to a rental car at all, but either solution would be a significant improvement.