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[CiscoKid]

My last p/u was a 1987 D150 (Dodge) with a slant 6 & a 1bbl carb. Had an AM/FM radio, A/C and roll up windows. Don't remember exactly what I paid, but it was less than 12K. It was wrecked in Jan '96. Best truck I ever had. Really wish they still made stuff like that. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

You can't kill those 225 cu. in. straight sixes.

 

[Casey Jones]

You can't kill those 225 cu. in. straight sixes.

The goobermint did it, just-fine.

All it took was REGULATION. For da chillinz, dontcha know.

 

[searcher]

General Motors Stops Selling Drive Data to Insurance Data Providers

GM will no longer share drivers' vehicle data with two brokers who sell that data to the insurance industry.

www.thedrive.com

 

[searcher]

How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me)​

This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since.

Automakers have been selling data about the driving behavior of millions of people to the insurance industry. In the case of General Motors, affected drivers weren’t informed, and the tracking led insurance companies to charge some of them more for premiums. I’m the reporter who broke the story. I recently discovered that I’m among the drivers who was spied on.

My husband and I bought a G.M.-manufactured 2023 Chevrolet Bolt in December. This month, my husband received his “consumer disclosure files” from LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Verisk, two data brokers that work with the insurance industry and that G.M. had been providing with data. (He requested the files after my article came out in March, heeding the advice I had given to readers.)

My husband’s LexisNexis report had a breakdown of the 203 trips we had taken in the car since January, including the distance, the start and end times, and how often we hard-braked or accelerated rapidly. The Verisk report, which dated back to mid-December and recounted 297 trips, had a high-level summary at the top: 1,890.89 miles driven; 4,251 driving minutes; 170 hard-brake events; 24 rapid accelerations, and, on a positive note, zero speeding events.

More:

https://archive.ph/5Y7DF#selection-3299.0-3319.243

 

[Casey Jones]

Enraging, but not a surprise.

The Internet of Everything.

Solution: DO NOT BUY A NEW CAR. For ANY reason.

Remember that rentals are also tracking you. INCLUDING, probably, hidden cameras and/or mics.

Somehow, this (expletive) has to stop. And it won't, until people are sufficiently outraged and take charge of the government.

In the meantime...if my two well-preserved old cars don't outlast me (I have ten years left on my service life) then I'll take a little trip to Mejico and buy something old, down there. If I can't get a VW Type I (they made them until 2003 in Puebla) then I'll get a Nissan Sentra. They were good cars here in the day, and were sold with less basic stuff in Mexico about twenty years after US sales were stopped.

I'm not playing the Surveillance State Roulette game.

 

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