bad_fmr posted:

It's the way of the road.

Humphreys posted:

Imagined posted:

What I've always wondered is why people always start with the wheels when they think about fixing up an old car. How many times have I seen an old car running around with rust and peeling paint and primered panels, all dinged up and poo poo, but with $900 wheels on it. Who is that supposed to impress?

Majere posted:

I don't think anyone in the "stance" crowd ever cared about things like "safety" and "drivability"

slidebite posted:

throwin this here

Uthor posted:

I don't know poo poo about guns, how worrying is it for something like that to just fire into their butt/bike? Or I guess vibrate and fall out?

Uthor posted:

Was driving to my folks yesterday. Got passed by a motorcyclist, wind blowing their shirt up, the gun stuffed into the waist of their jeans exposed. No holster or anything.

I don't know poo poo about guns, how worrying is it for something like that to just fire into their butt/bike? Or I guess vibrate and fall out?

I always wore proper protection when I rode a motorcycle!

Ether Frenzy posted:

Dude was riding a motorcycle, packing an unsafetied gun worn stupidly only increases his likelihood of mortality by like 2% tbh.

Uthor posted:

Was driving to my folks yesterday. Got passed by a motorcyclist, wind blowing their shirt up, the gun stuffed into the waist of their jeans exposed. No holster or anything.

I don't know poo poo about guns, how worrying is it for something like that to just fire into their butt/bike? Or I guess vibrate and fall out?

I always wore proper protection when I rode a motorcycle!

Genderfluent posted:

I've seen so many motorcyclists open carrying while not wearing a helmet. Feels like a total miscalculation of risk to me, but on the other hand this is America

honda whisperer posted:

If he's dumb enough to ride a motorcycle with an upholstered pistol he's dumb enough to do everything else as wrong as possible too.

Genderfluent posted:

I've seen so many motorcyclists open carrying while not wearing a helmet. Feels like a total miscalculation of risk to me, but on the other hand this is America

Elviscat posted:

You know those videos of people going into parking garages overheight, ignoring the bar, and then wrecking poo poo? My girlfriend just tried to do that, would have done that if I wasn't there.

We whanged the warning pipe with the kayak carriers, and she just kept driving because she had no idea what the loud noise and car shaking was, and then tried to insist that we continue into the garage because she couldn't turn around. (We ended up backing out). She's a fine driver on the road, but her stress and anxiety make her scary as poo poo when she drives in the city.

Olympic Mathlete posted:

Oh poo poo, look which brand I'm posting in the thread again! A cautionary tale about cars that are always online, woooooo!

https://twitter.com/wk057/status/1551713027480817670?t=ub32eRSz8zHNFrxGyzYoJg&s=19

BuckyDoneGun posted:

Not to defend Tesla here by any stretch, they're being dicks, but the PO who slapped a 90 badge on it and sold it as a 90 is also a bit of a dick too.

BuckyDoneGun posted:

I've read the thread and what it says is Tesla put in a 90 battery under warranty and mistakenly didn't software lock it to 60 as is their procedure.

Is it also their procedure to accidentally stick a 90 badge on the back too? Thread doesn't say Tesla badged it that way, just "Car is sold twice since, and now has a new owner (my customer). It says 90, badged 90, has 90-type range."

quote:

The Markup identified 37 companies that are part of the connected vehicle data industry. These companies seek to monetize vehicle data in an environment with few regulations governing its sale or use.

The connected vehicle data market is still in its early days, but analysts predict it will be worth anywhere from $300 billion to $800 billion by 2030.

This nascent industry faces challenges, as it is under pressure to reap profits in order to attract and satisfy investors; at the same time, the disclosure of sensitive and potentially identifying information from smartphones has prompted U.S. lawmakers to threaten sweeping crackdowns on the collection, transfer, and sale of location data, an effort that could create barriers for the industry as it grows.

Nevertheless, the race is on to gather massive amounts of data points about drivers to feed the growing market for this information.

Otonomo is a publicly traded company based in Tel Aviv. Founded in 2015, it was valued at $1.4 billion at the time of its initial public offering (via a SPAC) in August 2021. It boasts on its website that it draws data from 50 million vehicles, “tracking” 330 billion miles and ingests 4.1 billion data points per day.

Wejo, founded in 2014, is a publicly traded vehicle data hub based in Manchester, England. Wejo claims that its data represents “one in every 28 vehicles in the USA” and contains 16.2 trillion data points and 76.7 billion journeys with accuracy down to 3 meters, with a “1-3 second capture rate.”

Bennett Cyphers, a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said, “The more different ways you’re being measured in your vehicle, the more likely it is that someone can take a stream of data and use the characteristics of all of those different data points to fingerprint a particular user or a particular vehicle.”

Cyphers said the amount of personal data collected in combination with a lack of regulations for its sale and use is troubling. “When you see the volume of data that’s up for sale, and the lack of regulation in the vast majority of American states regarding how companies can use data, it seems like a match made in privacy hell.”

Olympic Mathlete posted:

Weird you're focusing on the owner applied badge when the car for all intents and purposes was turned into a 90 by Tesla. Should Tesla (or any manufacturer) be allowed to gently caress over a customer years after they've upgraded the car for a previous one?

BuckyDoneGun posted:

Not to defend Tesla here by any stretch, they're being dicks, but the PO who slapped a 90 badge on it and sold it as a 90 is also a bit of a dick too.