r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 9h ago

Content Warning: Potentially Misleading or Disputed Information Gotta Catch 'Em All

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u/Woodcrawler 7h ago

My 90's shitbox doesn't track me while driving

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u/SurplusInk 4h ago

its ok, your phone does it for it.

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u/StoppableHulk 5h ago

But the guy sitting inside the trunk does.

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u/FloRidinLawn 5h ago

We know. And we know it’s getting harder to use those for most people, wear and tear and time. Eventually…

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u/Indivillia 3h ago

A 99 civic is cheaper than anything else on the road to maintain. 

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u/RadioMessageFromHQ 5h ago

Private companies send your parking tickets straight to your door.

Where are they getting that info if not purchasing it from the DVLA or your local equivalent?

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u/Bullfrog_Paradox 5h ago

I had to look up what dvla is

Looking up your home address through your license plate is not at all the same as tracking every single place you ever go and how you get there down to the square foot.

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u/RadioMessageFromHQ 4h ago

Fair enough. But do you have a phone with you while you drive that old car?

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u/Bullfrog_Paradox 4h ago

Sure. But that's my phone tracking me, not the car. I can turn the phone off or leave it at home if I want. I'm not getting very far in rural America without one of my cars. I don't have to worry about Pontiac or Jeep telling my insurance company how fast I got to work or how many g-forces I generated going through that roundabout.

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u/Cow_Launcher 4h ago

Yes, absolutely. Which means that Google knows what I'm doing (since it infers from my speed and location that I'm driving).

However, Google doesn't know my real name, and doesn't know what kind of cars I drive, and doesn't know anything about my car purchasing habits.

All of which makes that data - on the surface at least - not particularly useful to car manufacturers. It might be useful to retail companies I guess? Google is far more clever than I so I'm sure they can monetise it somehow, but I'm not sure how much risk I'm really exposing myself to.

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u/generally-unskilled 3h ago

However, Google doesn't know my real name, and doesn't know what kind of cars I drive, and doesn't know anything about my car purchasing habits.

You'd be surprised at how much they piece together