How much data does a 2019 Fit LX collect?
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How much data does a 2019 Fit LX collect?
I have a feeling the answer is, "Not that much," but... how much tracking does my 2019 base-model LX do?
https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars...ort-1850805416
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https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars...ort-1850805416
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My first thought was: Not as much as the cell phone almost everyone carries everywhere today. Or the computer you (and I) probably use at work or at home.
After reading the link you provided I have more questions than answers. It's easy enough to imagine a car monitoring, recording, or even broadcasting various driving metrics (acceleration, braking, cornering speeds and forces), but I can't imagine how a car would monitor sexual activity or genetic data. Actually, as an evolutionary biologist, if there was a car that came with James Bond-esque PCR and sequencing module in the trunk, I would be all over that. Finally a useful modern car feature for me.
Like a lot of modern life, if your car is tracking you and monitoring your life, what are you going to do about it? You either accept it or you make life choices to avoid it. I've never owned any kind of cell phone and when I say that in public people look at me like I just said something favorable about Hitler or pedophilia. It's been so long now that I can barely remember life before everyone around me had cell phones. In the beginning, I just didn't want to pay for it or be considered available 24-hrs per day. Now I see folks walking around like zombies, barely able to raise their eyes from the social media poison streaming directly into their brain and think "Yep, that was one of the better decisions I've made."
After reading the link you provided I have more questions than answers. It's easy enough to imagine a car monitoring, recording, or even broadcasting various driving metrics (acceleration, braking, cornering speeds and forces), but I can't imagine how a car would monitor sexual activity or genetic data. Actually, as an evolutionary biologist, if there was a car that came with James Bond-esque PCR and sequencing module in the trunk, I would be all over that. Finally a useful modern car feature for me.
Like a lot of modern life, if your car is tracking you and monitoring your life, what are you going to do about it? You either accept it or you make life choices to avoid it. I've never owned any kind of cell phone and when I say that in public people look at me like I just said something favorable about Hitler or pedophilia. It's been so long now that I can barely remember life before everyone around me had cell phones. In the beginning, I just didn't want to pay for it or be considered available 24-hrs per day. Now I see folks walking around like zombies, barely able to raise their eyes from the social media poison streaming directly into their brain and think "Yep, that was one of the better decisions I've made."
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None. The GK Fit is older technology. Released in 2015 it was presumably designed a year or two before that. It has no way of sending information back to anyone (as compared to say GM's Onstar satellite technology). It is a budget vehicle and Honda would have had no interest in loading it up with Big Brother technology.
It may collect some information such as the speed you were travelling at in the last 10 seconds which will be constantly overwritten unless you have a major accident and then it might be retrievable by police with a court order presumably through the OBD2 port..
It may collect some information such as the speed you were travelling at in the last 10 seconds which will be constantly overwritten unless you have a major accident and then it might be retrievable by police with a court order presumably through the OBD2 port..
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None. The GK Fit is older technology. Released in 2015 it was presumably designed a year or two before that. It has no way of sending information back to anyone (as compared to say GM's Onstar satellite technology). It is a budget vehicle and Honda would have had no interest in loading it up with Big Brother technology.
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It collects the error codes, you can use your ODB2 reader to allow you to read into your computer, but be careful/watch out for "woof", he could have hacked into your computer and take your data to sell it somewhere.
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My first thought was: Not as much as the cell phone almost everyone carries everywhere today. Or the computer you (and I) probably use at work or at home.
... I've never owned any kind of cell phone and when I say that in public people look at me like I just said something favorable about Hitler or pedophilia. It's been so long now that I can barely remember life before everyone around me had cell phones. In the beginning, I just didn't want to pay for it or be considered available 24-hrs per day. Now I see folks walking around like zombies, barely able to raise their eyes from the social media poison streaming directly into their brain and think "Yep, that was one of the better decisions I've made."
... I've never owned any kind of cell phone and when I say that in public people look at me like I just said something favorable about Hitler or pedophilia. It's been so long now that I can barely remember life before everyone around me had cell phones. In the beginning, I just didn't want to pay for it or be considered available 24-hrs per day. Now I see folks walking around like zombies, barely able to raise their eyes from the social media poison streaming directly into their brain and think "Yep, that was one of the better decisions I've made."
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