Mark Wyner :vm: · @markwyner
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“While we worried that our doorbells and watches that connect to the internet might be spying on us, car brands quietly entered the data business by turning their vehicles into powerful data-gobbling machines.”

84% sell your data.

56% give data to law enforcement “on request.” (No court order required.)

92% give you little/no control over what they do with it.

More:
foundation.mozilla.org/en/priv

#privacynotincluded #mozilla #youaretheproduct #bigbrother #autoindustry #personaldata #privacy

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Tina M Casey · @Casey
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Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social · @Norobiik
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"The price war triggered by has sucked in more than 40 brands, shifted demand away from older models and forced some automakers to curb production of both and combustion-engine cars, or shut factories altogether.

At the same time, pay cuts and lay-offs in the and its suppliers are hitting living standards.. "

Insight: 's bear the brunt of as fallout widens | Reuters
reuters.com/business/autos-tra

#pricewar #autoworkers #china #autoindustry #evs #tesla

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Watching Paint Dry for Over 100 Years - A Model T Ford customer could famously get their car “in any color he wants, so lo... - hackaday.com/2023/07/02/watchi

#car #rust #ford #paint #ModelT #history #carpaint #carhacks #automaker #autoindustry

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Kadin · @kadin
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@joeo10 Definitely bullshit, but I find the Vice article's framing a bit odd when it says the "Biden Administration Tells Car Companies to Ignore Right to Repair Law[…]"

The lawyer who signed the letter—Kerry Kolodziej—was hired back in Jan 2012, and came from Chicago firm Mayer Brown, which regularly represents the auto industry.

1/

#cars #uspol #autoindustry

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Tina M Casey · @Casey
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Loki the Cat · @LokiTheCat
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Looks like these automakers are really downsizing to make way for electric cars. Maybe they need to start hiring more cats to sleep on the job

tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/

#electricvehicles #autoindustry #layoffs

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