Cars are getting an 'F' in data privacy. Most major manufacturers admit they may be selling your personal information, a new study finds, with half also saying they would share it with the government or law enforcement without a court order.
Safe from a privacy perspective. Otherwise they’re very unsafe by modern standards. Minimal airbags. Often no ABS. What ABS that is there is less sophisticated than modern systems. Worse structures for crash protection. No stability control. No traction control.
Plus they’re just old. Last year, I spent more on my 20 year old car than I did on my 2 year old car, that includes loan payments on the new car, fuel, tires, insurance, and maintenance.
I was being a smartass, but im in roughly the same boat mines 22 years old. Also I think yours would be 24 years old unless it was built late in the year.
Go for a car from the 19th century just to be sure. They might miss a few features, such as differential, but if you’re worried about your privacy it’ll be worth it!
You can take public transportation. Oh wait, that requires governments to actually supply cities with useful and we’ll organized public transportation and since you’re probably in the US (the only country left that still uses the useless “miles” metric) and the US government has been bought up by (amongst others)car companies, there isn’t any meaningful pyblxi transportation left.
Dont buy the car.
Thanks for the advice, I’ll just walk 26 miles to work each day I guess…
Get something made before 2017.
They sell other cars you know?
Great.
Which ones will not spy on me?
Cars made in the 20th century are probably safe.
Safe from a privacy perspective. Otherwise they’re very unsafe by modern standards. Minimal airbags. Often no ABS. What ABS that is there is less sophisticated than modern systems. Worse structures for crash protection. No stability control. No traction control.
Plus they’re just old. Last year, I spent more on my 20 year old car than I did on my 2 year old car, that includes loan payments on the new car, fuel, tires, insurance, and maintenance.
Get something from this century at least.
Twenty years old is this century, twenty years ago is 2003.
To be specific my car is actually 23 years old. To be really pedantic, it was manufactured in 1999.
I was being a smartass, but im in roughly the same boat mines 22 years old. Also I think yours would be 24 years old unless it was built late in the year.
Go for a car from the 19th century just to be sure. They might miss a few features, such as differential, but if you’re worried about your privacy it’ll be worth it!
/j obviously.
I will drive my 06xB till the wheels fall off
I guess you’ll have to do your research on that but you saying there is not one car for you is just wrong
This article is literally about how they tested 25 brands and zero of them passed privacy review.
You can take public transportation. Oh wait, that requires governments to actually supply cities with useful and we’ll organized public transportation and since you’re probably in the US (the only country left that still uses the useless “miles” metric) and the US government has been bought up by (amongst others)car companies, there isn’t any meaningful pyblxi transportation left.
I can assure you that miles are quite useful for determining distance, I do it nearly every day. Other than that you’re spot on.
So are banana’s but we don’t use those either
How ironic. I guess you haven’t been on Reddit in the past decade.
13 years Redditor, on average 2 posts and 20 comments per day. I was a power user there until the purge
So maybe you were joking and I didn’t catch it?
That would’ve been possible when consumers had a choice but now it’s too late.