Even more, I don’t want to be generating data when I drive. It’s a god*mn car. I want it to move me down the road and stop when I press the brakes. That’s it.

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rootusrootus 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So the right answer is to provide an option for you to do that. Which hopefully this policy is saying that they do. But if what they are asserting is correct (and I think it is plausibly so), the majority of customers want features that can only function with the data.

	▲	simoncion an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> ...the majority of customers want features that can only function with the data. So the right answer is to leave the data collection mechanisms entirely disabled until the customer enables a feature that requires it, enable only the data collection mechanisms required by that feature, and disable them again -and purge all data collected by them- when the feature is disabled. The physical modules that collect this data and transmit this data should be easily removable by the customer, for those who know that they will never want those features to be provided by their car. The odds that this is what Ford is doing -at least in the US- are 0%.
	▲	rockskon an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		They keep telling the public that. Their assertions do not have value without trustworthy data to back them up.
	▲	Hizonner an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Like what? Features that require the data to be available to Ford, please.