In the "News of the Strange," we do have Europeans in the USA :) Being located in the USA is not a universal guarantee that you are not eligible for GDPR protections.
If you only ever drove Fords, you would think "AGUGGUUUG" was a natural sound for an automatic to make 😂That's innovation, Tesla should take notes!
Fuuuuck!!!
Unethical pro life tip... it's not like they KNOW you're not a European. Hit them with the GDPR request anyhow. ThePantser sounds close enough to DerPanzer. Worth a shot, what do I know, tho
Ford Panopticon: Crowd-Sourced Car Tracking Revealed in New Patent
We all know automakers want to keep tabs on their cars. Stolen vehicle tracking? Sure. Fleet management? Fine. Microphone eavesdropping to serve more ads? Hate it, but OK, that’s a thing. Hold onto your tin-foil hats: Ford just published a patent for something that takes vehicle tracking into full-b...
Thought y'all might find this interesting, if you like automotive tech.
We all know automakers want to keep tabs on their cars. Stolen vehicle tracking? Sure. Fleet management? Fine. Microphone eavesdropping to serve more ads? Hate it, but OK, that’s a thing.
Hold onto your tin-foil hats: Ford just published a patent for something that takes vehicle tracking into full-blown Twilight Zone territory.
(If this sort of post is unwelcome, just let me know and I can remove it, or y'all can remove it with no worries.)
Love the versioning. Saw minor edits to the "Fork in the Road" landing page over time, including the cleaning up of just plain sloppy typos. They clearly deployed half-cocked, didn't even run spell-check.
I've spent some time noodling on that exact question.
It'd be great if we had a better functioning civil society, where the government and the 4th estate could insist on basic protections for citizens, and the corporations would be steered away from the worst profit-seeking excesses that they'll get into without the extra guidance.
What do I know, though? I'm a comedian ;) 100% agree with you that there is a happy middle ground between new tech and privacy/civil liberties, but I'm doubtful that I'll ever personally set foot on it with the way things are trending.
That article was what gave me the idea to search the patent database. All sorts of creepy shit in the pipeline. Stay tuned.
Some fun stuff, automatic dog treat dispensers and stuff, but mostly appalling violations of your privacy. Welcome to the future, where Dearborn is always watching.
I am absolutely furious to find out that you can totally turn off those alerts... by calling a literal phone number. You call Sirius FM, and they deactivate it, I guess it's a free trial or some BS.
Comment #15 from Kailua Coach seems to do what you want done, what a shitheaded design:
https://www.pacificaforums.com/threads/turn-off-weather-alerts.37618/
Smart.
I think that's why Ford is patenting this specific tech. It prevents you from being able to turn off the tracking, by leveraging every Ford that has NOT turned off tracking to spot the vehicle that is "running dark."
I hate that Batman predicted this.
Ford Panopticon: Crowd-Sourced Car Tracking Revealed in New Patent
We all know automakers want to keep tabs on their cars. Stolen vehicle tracking? Sure. Fleet management? Fine. Microphone eavesdropping to serve more ads? Hate it, but OK, that’s a thing. Hold onto your tin-foil hats: Ford just published a patent for something that takes vehicle tracking into full-b...
We all know automakers want to keep tabs on their cars. Stolen vehicle tracking? Sure. Fleet management? Fine. Microphone eavesdropping to serve more ads? Hate it, but OK, that’s a thing. Hold onto your tin-foil hats: Ford just filed a patent for something that takes vehicle tracking into full-blown Twilight Zone territory. Always-On Tracking… In Your Car, or Somebody Else’s.
Tesla Releases Not-FSD in China - Here's Video of How It Drives
Tesla has finally updated its self-driving software in China, but it’s not exactly what long-waiting FSD customers were hoping for. According to Reuters, the new system, called Urban Road Autopilot Assistance, rolled out after weeks of rumors that the Full-Self Driving (FSD) supervised system would ...
Tesla has finally updated its self-driving software in China, but it’s not exactly what long-waiting FSD customers were hoping for. According to Reuters, the new system, called Urban Road Autopilot Assistance, rolled out after weeks of rumors that the Full-Self Driving (FSD) supervised system would finally launch in China. Here's video and analysis.
If ever we'd see a recusal, it would have been public last Friday. It ain't comin.
I think it's news cycle in this case. Felt like how a looter would fire the department, "wait until nightfall" deal
Oh NO, Dhork, why did you have to be RIGHT about it
Updated: 40+ NHTSA Employees Fired Late Friday… Elon Doesn't See Any Conflicts of Interest
Update: We broke this news over the weekend from a lucky catch on Reddit, but the Washington Post and TechCrunch are expanding on it, citing anonymous sources. They report that 10% of the NHTSA employees have been cut, which would be about 80 staffers, with especially heavy cuts for the employees in...
Update: We broke this news over the weekend from a lucky catch on Reddit, but the Washington Post and TechCrunch are expanding on it, citing anonymous sources. They report that 10% of the NHTSA employees have been cut, which would be about 80 staffers, with especially heavy cuts for the employees in the new office overseeing autonomous vehicle safety.
Sure, sure. The "official" just means that the first year of results are measured. Felt too early to look at before we had a full year of data.
The statistic for the Cybertruck wasn't intended to determine cause, just effect. Maybe you're right and they'll wind up about as safe as other Teslas, which are the most lethal brand of car to drive based on NHTSA data. You can see why the DOGE effort is closely scrutinizing the NHTSA.
Totally hear you and agree to the broad sentiment if not the specifics. I really hope you're right, I hope they fix it and it becomes safer. The door emergency release designs in particular feel antagonistic to the lives of rear seat passengers.
Also, just my opinion. I mostly tell jokes, I just stumbled into a joke where I was like "wait that can't be true, can it," and then a couple hours of research later, it looked like it was confoundingly true.
LOL, I dishonestly flagged it for the reader to review themselves? Wow, I must be a real piece of shit.
So anyhow, you're an honest person, so if I'm a lying bastard with some non-specific ulterior motive (or I just really fuckin suck at math), what's your number when you run the stats with one fewer fire fatality in the Cybertruck column? Does it change the overall meaning of the study, or nah?
Alright, boss.
If you can't believe a PHD holder on their subject of expertise, and you won't run your own analysis, I guess you'll believe whatever you like no matter what anybody else says. Ok! I'm fine with that if you're fine with that.
I should probably explain: I do find it acceptable to include all the deaths in the Cybertruck... simply because 100% of the fatalities have been in Cybertrucks that burned. Isn't that absolutely AGGRAVATINGLY ridiculous? That alone is worth the headline. Car fires are not common in 2025. Every single car built in 2025 should be safer than the Ford fucking Pinto!
EldritchFemininity: Describes being hired to build the human centipede, but out of Ford Pintos
Also EldritchFemininity: Refuses to elaborate; leaves.
No, that's not what I said at all. Get your quote right. I said "fuck it, we ball."
Serious tho, if you're curious why I did that, read up the thread, I explain it. Nothin nefarious (I hope)
It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto
We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to compare to the Ford Pinto, a car so notoriously combustible that it has become a watchword for corporate...
We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to compare to the Ford Pinto, a car so notoriously combustible that it has become a watchword for corporate greed. Let’s start with the data...
Update: NHTSA Crash Data Taken Down Due to Executive Order "Defending Women"… Then Reposted with Victim Data Erased
Last week, Ars Technica broke the news that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) quietly took down their 2022 crash data, for the rumored purpose to scrub gender data from its Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). At the time, the records had simply vanished from the publi...
Last week, Ars Technica broke the news that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) quietly took down their 2022 crash data, for the rumored purpose to scrub gender data from its Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). At the time, the records had simply vanished from the public database, leaving only speculation... now that the data has been reposted, we see that Ars Technica had it exactly right.
Updated: CyberTruck "Slices Deer in Half"... Elon claims that it is safer for pedestrians.
Here’s a story you all saw coming. If a new model pickup truck is on the road for any amount of time, somebody is going to ram a deer with it! What makes this collision unique is the pickup truck in question: a 2024 Tesla CyberTruck, the Cyberbeast edition. The headline tells much of the […]
Here’s a story you all saw coming. If a new model pickup truck is on the road for any amount of time, somebody is going to ram a deer with it! What makes this collision unique is the pickup truck in question: a 2024 Tesla CyberTruck. The headline tells much of the […]