They're Watching Us

https://driving.ca/chevrolet/volt/a...-know-about-you-we-hacked-a-chevy-to-find-out


Automakers are sending home a ton of data about our driving habits. Some cars reportedly have a 300GB hard drive to save your data before they harvest it.

Privacy? What privacy?

I'm glad I drive a 15 year old van. Frito ain't gonna sell me out.

On my last car, if I didn't agree to sharing my car's data, then the smartphone app that let me remote start, turn on the heat, etc would not function. I suspect manufacturers will continue to disable features unless you agree to share your information.

What do you expect from Government Motors Corporation?

glasseye said:

Some cars reportedly have a 300GB hard drive to save your data before they harvest it

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From an engineering point of view, a 300 GB hard drive would be a very stupid choice.

Far better to use 256 GB FlashRam drives: they don't need to spin up to record data, they're not bothered by the G-forces of road vibrations or a crash, they're less temperature sensitive, etc etc etc

--dick

autostaretx said:

From an engineering point of view, a 300 GB hard drive would be a very stupid choice.

Far better to use 256 GB FlashRam drives: they don't need to spin up to record data, they're not bothered by the G-forces of road vibrations or a crash, they're less temperature sensitive, etc etc etc

--dick

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That was my reaction, too. Probably a journalist's error.

I saw a 128GB USB flash drive for $30 the other day. OMG.

On the flip side of this is the full time recording like Tesla uses. Next time someone runs you off the road, or a cop tickets you falsely, you have video and GPS logs. Or someone keys your car, sideswipes it, etc.

Much of the logging will likely be used for benign purposes. Like figuring out which features get the most usage, tracking the incidents of certain reliability of safety faults, etc.

In the case of Telsa, they used about 100,000 hours of of real world rain driving to train their automatic wiper neural network. So instead of needing an expensive rain detection sensor, they can integrate a essentially free piece of software into every vehicle they sell.