An investigation by consumer advocacy group Choice found most of Australia’s popular car brands collect and share “driver data”, ranging from braking patterns to video footage.
Kia and Hyundai collect voice recognition data from inside their cars and sell it to an artificial intelligence software training company.
Privacy and consumer rights advocates are pushing for law reform to limit data collection to what is “fair and reasonable”.
Yeah, I have an aftermarket stereo that does Android/Apple as well. That’s been smart enough for me.
This sounds useful, but I imagine it’d be 90% “someone walked past your car” - more annoying than anything. An aftermarket dashcam would record all that as well, and give you the same info when you returned to the vehicle. Which sounds more useful to me.
I don’t believe I’d ever want the other two, personally. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but ‘Let’s make your car so complicated that we need to send it software updates’ is not a selling point to me.