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Of course I would, I did it 6 months ago.
If it didn’t have survalance sensors and had no internet connectivity, yes
That’s EVERY car now. Even if it is not enabled for the owner the hardware and software is present.
Thats why I’m saying that if they provided it, I’d buy it. Because its impossible to find a privacy friendly car. There’s a market for it.
I’ve seen articles of how the car maker will sell this to insurance and if you do anything wrong your rate will go up.
If I ever buy a new car you can bet I’ll be doing research on how to rip that shit out. Won’t even drive it home from the dealer without getting in there first.
If it can be removed. Car electronics are as integrated as your phone removing or disabling individual parts can totally fubar the car. Canada (and the rest of the world) needs to set some seriously harsh standards for vehicles and digital privacy.
When I need a new car it’ll be well researched and proven to be possible, or it will be a old 1990’s car and I’ll upgrade parts. I don’t mind soldering, researching chips, removing any antennas, etc.
In any case, It’s public knowledge so hopefully we get laws or something first to stop this shit.
https://pirg.org/articles/car-companies-are-sneakily-selling-your-driving-data/
Then again. My rate might go up because my car doesn’t submit reports
I don’t really have a problem with a certain amount of protectionism as a concept, but Canada has a long history of granting special privileges to specific companies in key industries, then sitting back while those powers are used to mercilessly abuse consumers. I’m not super confident this is going to be any different.
No, I wouldn’t buy any EV, ever.
If it had a reliable 500 miles between charge, plus minus 50 mi depending on drive, I would be fine with it. My primary complaint with EVs is that right now they don’t have the distance to make me happy with them.
I want to be able to get into a vehicle and drive for 6 hours straight without a charge reliably for the life of the vehicle.
I won’t do that very often, but it’s still something that is a make or break option for me.
500 miles? I mean, that would be awesome but are you able to go that far on a tank now?
I’m curious what your current vehicle is and what the range is?
In between 350 and 550 miles per tank depending on how I’m driving it (city vs hwy).
It’s a 2020 Chevy Malibu premiere.
Any reason why? I’m more than willing to buy an ev if it is reliable. Though I would prefer if it was just like a standard car but with an electric motor in it vs a smart car.
I don’t even want cars made in America.
New cars have an internet connection and GPS now, even if it is not exposed to the driver it is there.
New cars have one of those fucking touch screens in the dash leaving many of the features of your car held hostage by the lowest-bidder firmware that will never get an update and can not be replaced. That lowest-bidder firmware is also insecure, exposing your movement and vehicle features (engine control, transmission control, body control, climate control, locks, steering, braking, and the radio) to whoever happens to take the time to break it. When Dodge got owned a few year ago the problem was so big that they only way to prevent bad actors from owning cars was to block all traffic to the vehicles externally, the cars could not be made secure on their own.
New cars have horrible physical security as well, using the same CAN bus to operate exterior lights and unlock the fucking doors. They are vulnerable to replay/relay attacks which are possible with $50 off the shelf hardware. A lot of cars even let you program a band new fob with bluetooth, so for under 100 bucks someone can just drive away with your $60k phone on wheels.
Before we start deciding which country has the best cars how about we set some strong standards for the quality of all vehicles on Canadian roads?
As long as it can pass Canadian safety regulations (so I won’t try to buy one through a back-channel import), I’d be fine with it.
Honestly I’d trust Chinese manufacturers more to just give me the basics of just driving and less of the unnecessary frills that make it a data hogging iPad on wheels.
Absolutely not! I can’t afford an affordable EV.
No such thing.
The $10k Chinese EV is only $10k in China. When localized for other markets, it’s much closer to the same price as all other EVs. Some of this is tariffs, but there’s a bunch of changes they need to make to meet safety requirements. Even the $15k Seagull they talk about in the article is expected to be the cheapest offering in Europe, eventually, and they’re aiming for 20k Euros, which is 30k CAD.
Probably not, since their routers and other devices have shown what appears like purposeful security openings and data harvesting, I would not trust an EV from China to not log all my info. Or worse a remote kill to disable all vehicles when China doesn’t get what it wants and throws a tantrum
They should build a factory in Canada like the rest of the autos. Then labor practices and safety will follow Canadian standards, and more of the significant purchase price will remain in our local economy. That will also level the playing field with other Canadian made cars instead of decimating the future of the industry, since lower cost EVs are far from profitable yet. Yes #FuckCars and all that, but there always will be a need for cars even if we drive fewer of them. It’s good to be able to build EVs in Canada. The neoliberal dream that we can offshore and buy things made anywhere in the world while having people in our economy flourish has failed. Doing more of it won’t make it work.
What’s to gains:
BYD, a Chinese car manufacturing giant, debuted its Seagull EV last year at a starting price of about $14,600 Cdn for a 305-kilometre-range version. The cheapest options available in Canada, by contrast, start at roughly $38,000.
What’s at risk:
The stakes are high. Since 2020, Canada has attracted more than $46 billion in investments for 13 electric vehicle, battery and battery component manufacturing projects, according to a June 18 report from the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
The same report says that Ottawa and the provinces have jointly promised up to $53 billion in return, including tax credits, production subsidies and capital investments. Industry groups, such as the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association, warn all of that could be at risk if the industry isn’t protected.
Your second quote sounds a lot like typical complaining from american manufacturers about how cheap imports “ruin the free market” unless they are heavily taxed or banned. This isnt about the consumer or about corporate subsidies. North american manufacturers have no interest in making affordable cars because their profits on more luxurious models are higher. They will beg governments to ban their competitors so they can keep their share of the market without actually providing what the market wants.
Without missing a heartbeat. Cars made in China tend to have extremely cool gadgets you never see in European cars. Be it front, back, lateral facing cameras or any other type of sensors. They’ve got so many cool stuff we’re just missing out on, man.
No, I prefer being alive
If they sold cars that killed the owners, then they wouldn’t be able to sell more cars.
Sure you can have pessimism, totally understandable, but you should temper that pessimism with a modicum of pragmatism.
Chinese is almost synonymous with “cheap, low quality products” and when you make a cheap low quality car, people die. They’re going to come up with the next Pinto, I’m sure of it.
You do know that companies sell products that kill their consumers every single day right?
Lots of BYD in Europe, you can watch them on YT or others, people love them
As long as they meet or exceed safety regulations here and all customer data is stored in North America with any software updates being managed and delivered through a non-china entity then I’m fine with it.
Even better, all software should be required to be open source for security.
Do people just love them because of the low price though? If they cost the same as a Tesla would people still love them?
Yes.
