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Are there any without data collection and overengineered bloatware ?
I took a single fuse out of my 2023 chevy bolt and it disabled all that shit. There’s an onstar module behind the infotainment screen that appears to be pretty easy to disable if you want to keep gps and thus location-based charging active. I personally don’t care about that, so fuse was plenty.
It’s also just a very basic vehicle overall, with physical buttons for most stuff (so touchscreen doesn’t get used much while driving), which I like coming from a 2012 honda civic. The only real modern thing it seems to have other than infotainment is the backup camera, and that’s a decade old requirement already.
Also, if it matters to you, chevy bolt runs on open source software. You can audit it right on your dash panel, if you so choose.
Edit: looks like there’s a fork of openpilot for it as well for mostly self-driving? Idk if I’d trust that, but kinda neat. I thought it was a fork of the OS, but its not.
Look into SLATE, they claim its data collection free and its a optional add-on for fleet vehicles.
I am getting one in January and hoping KIA will buy back their overpriced living-room on wheels. EV9.
Isn’t slate owned/backed or managed in some form by jeff bezos?
Obviously, if the product is good and doesnt track you then that’s great, but obvious skepticism would be warranted.
He gave in the initial round of funding. AFAIK he has no input and isn’t even on the board.
Any stellantis car. To be clear they have both data collection and bloatware, it’s just so poorly made it doesn’t work so no worries.
Probably an older Nissan Leaf, or start a company that produces one.
You can remove the SIM from them, or disable in other ways! Varies by make & model. Examples:
https://service.tesla.com/docs/ModelS/ServiceManual/Palladium/en-us/GUID-67B031B2-7EDB-4531-9159-27B4BEDBCCA1.html
https://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/offnet.html