Yesterday, I talked about wanting to own a pre-digital car — i.e. one that doesn’t fucking spy on your every move.
I often wonder what car or cars I’d get to replace the Tiguan, and what’s interesting is that I’m having precisely the same feelings that I have with guns and watches: nothing of recent manufacture at all — especially given that they’re all without exception loaded with electronic gizmos I don’t care for, or else gizmos that spy on you and/or could possibly be used to control your driving. In fact, the more I think about it, I’d probably have to go back to pre-1970s cars — fully resto-modded of course — to find a car that has not a single computer chip in its driving operation.
Here’s a business opportunity, because this is America. (I don’t have the technical skills or capital to follow through on this but I’ll just throw it out there.) Is it possible to turn your car into a mobile Faraday cage? And would it be possible to turn the feature on and off?
I know, car companies and / or the godless insurance industry would probably use their lawyers and lobbyists to outlaw this, just as law enforcement tried to prevent speed-radar scanners, but it’s worth a shot. With a switchable cage, the insurance companies couldn’t exactly deny you coverage or raise your rates if all the data showed was you doing trips to the supermarket once a week.
It’s time for us to fight back against this nonsense, and to borrow an expression: rage against the machine — the machine, in this case, being Big Brother cars, the cunts who make them and sell your data, the even-bigger cunts who strip-mine your personal data, and and the last category of cunts who use your personal data against you.)
I feel a mega-rant coming on, but instead I’ll just go to the range.
And just to make you feel better, if my car was spying on me it could report said destination to… well, anyone who might be interested in such data. Makes you think, dunnit?
You might look at the Dacia cars. I’ve not investigated too closely but they’re billed as simple cars
I just got my new car a Dacia Sandero ( the most basic model, Essential Sce 65 ) they have less Electro Shit than other brand but still. Of course this is europe so.