Em Adespoton

The iX and i4 series supposedly have a menu option that disables most of it, and if you disconnect the SIM card in the shark fin, the rest of the vehicle keeps operating as normal (with a warning that it’s been disabled).

It’s pretty verifiable as you can disable the hardware.

Why not laws that control data sovereignty? BYD’s vehicles in the EU have to comply with GDPR; all the telemetry goes to an EU data warehouse.

The main issue I have with US vehicles currently is that they collect everything you do, store it in the US, and then both sell data off to third parties AND implement lax security so that interested third parties can just waltz in and take the data. And that’s before you get to the US government buying that data as well.

The only EV I can currently find on the market that lets you turn off telematics is by BMW.

When people have already been killed, it kind of puts a damper on transparent communication with the police.

RTO initiatives don’t just hurt taxpayers and the employees; it also clogs up the roadways and increases traffic incidents.

Sure there are downsides to WFH, but they’re far outweighed by the downsides of WFO.

Well, they’re not completely wrong. Canada is roughly the same as it was 15 years ago. US swerving hard right could make those who have convinced themselves that they’re the centre of the universe that this makes Canada unreliable, as we haven’t tracked the US dive into political instability.