Buying an Electric Vehicle - Lemmy.world
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> work in a software company from India > bought an ev 2 wheeler > the company provided statistics about the distance travelled, efficiency, range, all in different driving modes > felt happy to know all these > company discontinued sending all the statistics, stopped web login by saying all details would be available on the phone app > 3 months got over, but no new features available on the phone app > try to snoop what’s happening on their app > found the api key and url from the app log. > MF, they track 20+ parameters for each trip including the number of times the horn is pressed > why the horn count? What are they going to get by tracking it? 🤔 > all the EVs are privacy nightmares.
    • Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Sure it is happening to all vehicles, however with an ICE vehicle I have the option to buy an older pre Internet connect vehicle.

      EVs really only became a thing 10ish years ago. There just isn’t a lot of them around to pick from, basically all have some anti privacy features.