Your New Truck is Spying on You

And I use a dumb fone too. It isn't a PDA, it's a fone and that is all that it is allowed to do!
 
Internet info. Is the new money industry. Look and how rich all the internet companies are that collect info on everything we do.
 
I have heard that Toyota has long had wireless data collection on their vehicles for crash data...perhaps to combat lawsuits on accidents.

Just like when TV first come out, the WEB has so much good potential....but it is largely a tool of corporate commerce,

Oh well Merry Christmas anyway.

David Graves
 
This is just new info on an old story...15 years ago i wrote a newspaper story about what was being collected then. When manufacturers put computers in cars, they also recorded a few seconds of data. When they added the ability to connect, memory increased and more data was recorded...next it will be cameras, the manufacturers will be replacing or enhancing rear and side view mirrors with cameras which will record and can be used against you...
 
Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montana. Give me my 1973 C/K pickup coming to me..........
 
Yep...really missing my 2003 F-250 7.3 that I sold to buy a new 2016 F-350. The '16 Super Duty just went through a bunch of sensor/network issues that required Ford do perform a "wire overlay". Which, I think, is a term for replacing bad wires in the harness without opening the harness itself. Truck is out of warranty. Ford performed the repair at no cost to me, which leads me to believe they have a known issue that has not triggered a recall.
 
Personally, I think the issue of your truck "spying" on you is a non-issue. Yes, the sensors will collect vehicle performance and fault data and store it. And may or may not send the data to the manufacturer without your knowledge. But, I seem to believe tracking your location and other personal info (without your approval (enabling such a feature)) would open the manufacturer up to a number of Federal Privacy Act violations.
 
It is not a threshold issue for me. Heck, my smartphone knows where I have been, and sends that to the cloud. Traffic cameras and other surveillance cameras seem to be scattered all over many cities. Face recognition software is accurate and easy to come by. My ATM and credit cards leave a digital exhaust trail behind me. And Amazon knows pretty much everything I want almost before I even search for it sometimes. Modern world problems... meh.
 
What was new (to me) is that they are not just keeping data on driving (i.e. how I drive and where I go) but copying the contents of a connected smart phone (pictures, contacts, texts). Why and to what purpose? And that is only what was retrievable.

jim
 
Advmoto18 said:
Yep...really missing my 2003 F-250 7.3 that I sold to buy a new 2016 F-350.
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Reminds me of the most often-repeated phrase I hear in casual discussions with diesel truck owners. When hearing that mine is an '02 7.3, I hear some version of "Man, I wish I'd never sold my 7.3". Of course some of those guys had moved "up" to the 6.0, so their buyer's remorse had some meaning.

Foy
 
Smokecreek1 said:
First it was electric windows. Still glad my old "99" F150 4x4 is still running fine!!

Smoke
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Ha! I learned to drive in an old jeep, crank windows, four on the floor and pneumatic windshield wipers activated by a pull knob on the top of the windshield. Getting it into and out of 4WD was like solving a rubik's cube - every time. They don't make them like that anymore!
Tony
 
And, I guess why my daily driver is a 1988 Toyota Land Cruiser - BJ74, RH drive, diesel imported from Japan 2 years ago. Heck, it only has an AM radio with one speaker that sounds like those speakers from the 50s and 60s you stick on your window at the drive-in theater!
 
Advmoto18 said:
And, I guess why my daily driver is a 1988 Toyota Land Cruiser - BJ74, RH drive, diesel imported from Japan 2 years ago. Heck, it only has an AM radio with one speaker that sounds like those speakers from the 50s and 60s you stick on your window at the drive-in theater!
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For some reason, I have a sudden craving for popcorn, sody dope and Raisinettes to accompany the tinny sound.

Paul
 
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