Toyota, Progressive Insurance, and a data analytics firm are now being accused of collecting detailed personal driving information without proper consent
Welp, here goes any chance I’m buying a Toyota as a next car
I think all cars spy on you now. But yes, definitely not Toyota.
Mazda has a process to opt out on data collection I heard though. Not the best but it’s better than nothing. But I’m holding onto my 10 year old “dumb” car until it turns into a pile of rust.
recorded “hard braking” event
This has always confused me. We’re incentivizing hoping the vehicle slows down enough when someone cuts you off…?
I can understand recording extreme acceleration, but deceleration to not hit something being “bad” is strange
I think it’s about frequency. If you break hard because other drivers are shit, you’ll do so at a rate comparable to others. If you break hard more frequently, then you are probably the problem.
I would assume it is not about the braking itself. However, if there is a crash, then it might interesting if there was a hard braking right before or not.
All carmakers are doing that, not just Toyota. If someone posts a similar report about China’s BYD you are whatabouted to death, but if it is about a non-Chinese carmaker, there are no whataboutisms.
Is the data collection good or bad now? Should we have digital sovereignty in Europe and other democracies or just import ChEaP cHiNeSe CaRs?
[Edit typo.]