My favorite one is this.

I think there was only one that suggests pressing the lock door button. But apparently that’s not a universal feature because most of the suggestions tell him to press a button on the touch screen console

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    My solution to this was to stop driving lol. Newest car I ever owned was a 2003, now I have an ebike that’s about as dumb as a box of rocks. Most sophisticated thing in it is the motor controller.

    The nearby carshare system is even worse though when I do have to get a car, they have a lot of the new whiz bang tracking features, in addition to literally being lojacked and having cameras with video and audio facing front and back.

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        mixed bag but it probably hasn’t been a great idea for ages. I haven’t actually seen cameras in regular rental cars yet but I’m certain they gps track them at least. Same with rental trucks from the hardware store. Seems like fleet vehicles were the first to get the cameras (and attendant machine learning monitoring your driving), but it’s spreading. And its all 4G streaming video too (probably with some significant limits for bandwidth purposes, maybe it only streams a low res by default or slow stream of thumbnails)