Your Car Is Sharing Data With Big Tech Companies, Study Finds - Consumer Reports
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New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    OBD1 sucks, though. 1995 through 2010-ish (i.e. OBD2 but no telemetry) is much better.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      OBD1 is fine if you know how to deal with it. The second generation throttle body fuel injection from gm is crude but works as are most of the obd1 systems… They’re usually simple enough that no advanced diagnostics is ever needed.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        OBD1 is fine if you know how to deal with it.

        You should tell that to the multiple mechanics that have just flat-out refused to work on my '94 Toyota because it isn’t OBD2.

        • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Because their $8k snap-on scantool and AllData subscription doesn’t plug into it anymore. That’s just them being lazy and/or not having the time to find old service manuals