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Just buy a Tesla. For those of you who think for yourselves and are still reading, I'll explain why. They have the best practices of any connected car listed,
by natch 3y ago
Just buy a Tesla.
For those of you who think for yourselves and are still reading, I'll explain why.
They have the best practices of any connected car listed, it's all opt in, and they collect nothing tied to your ID. Privacy aside, also there's no haggling, and it's a better car with lower TCO and more efficient drive train and wicked fun. The leather and mahogany and built in cigar cutter is not there, but hey you have a charging network.
Back to privacy, to me it's a feature, not a bug, that you can view live video from your car's many cameras while you are far away from your car. I can check from the office whether my garage door is open. That's good, not bad. Mozilla is really amping up the hyperventilation to think of this as a negative.
If you read carefully it sounds like nobody contributing to the article actually sat in a Tesla and went through the experience of how choices are presented.
The way I look at it most of the negatives they tried very hard to come up with in the article for Tesla boil down to "it seems we aren't sure if we can trust them because look at us, doing business with Google, which is also a privacy nightmare, and if we posture like this, Tesla might too" which is all fair, but very weak.
You actually don't see Tesla posturing about privacy, although maybe they might after this article. That would be reasonable. When you do read the fine print, it is very good for consumer privacy.
Just buy a great car that you love, but also one that you won't regret buying later.
- Ylpertnodi 3y ago>Just buy a Tesla. No. Because of the owner.
- natch 3y agoHe's actually a good guy, though it's your choice if he rubs you the wrong way.
- nemo 3y agoHe's using his bullhorn at Twitter to spread antisemitic lies at a time when hate crimes against Jews are escalating. That definitely rubs me the wrong way and I worry about those it doesn't.
- natch 3y agoThat's an accusation, but there are other more charitable interpretations of what's going on. You are free to choose your own interpretation though.
- nemo 3y agoYou're papering over explicit anti-semitism that's being celebrated by neo-Nazis who are gleefully quoting him and claiming him as one of their own and by doing so affirming that his statements are antisemitic. You can offer as many charitable excuses as you like, but from here that is not a good look at all, and my version of good guys doesn't include those who pick up neo-Nazi fan clubs gleefully quoting them and claiming by their words that they are members of the same ideological group.
- DesiLurker 3y agoUntil Musk decides that you dont get updates (& maybe airbags deployed) because you said something anti-russia/pro-union/anti-whatever-his-whim. Not sure I wanna get into anything he makes after the latest revelations on Ukraine. He is hardly the underdog he claims he was, not anymore.
- natch 3y agoUpdates are opt in, you don't have to accept them. The Ukraine thing is more nuanced than the media makes it out to be. They are in the business of selling drama.