My current car is old. I had a lot of repairs done on it recently. If I get a new car, I don’t want features. Lane assist, backup camera, DUI Camera, telemetry, auto breaking or other frankly silly features. Call me grumpy, but I find modern cars very distracting.

Can I ask a dealership to disable these at purchase? Is there a car that works best for being private besides just older cars?

I drive very little in a year. No, I can’t ride a bike.

  • twoBrokenThumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    20 hours ago

    You might want to look at just pulling the sim card (assuming its physical).

    For long term (meaning transfer of vehicle) you might want to buy a second head unit. When you sell the car have it swapped out so none of your history is in it. Because even if you remove the sim it will still collect data, just not be able to send it back home.

    There’s a lot of variables in threat model and budget though so I just mention these as options, not necessarily recommendations.

      • twoBrokenThumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Probably depends on the car. But I’ll say that it probably isn’t easy. The sim will pull out just like it pulls out of a phone. But getting to it is the tricky part. You have to open up your dash to get to it.