Calafornia Road Charge Options

[73-914]

Sounds like a great way for EV's to pay their fair share

[technicalninja]

A car can be "connected" without the permission of the owner.

If you can receive ANYTHING at all via text about the car, it IS connected.

More common is a black box data recorder that holds the last XXX seconds/minutes of data before an "event" such as airbag deployment. This can be a TINY module that is incorporated in something else. It can be "invisible" and not show up on any factory information/wire harnesses.

I'm pretty good at finding crap like this but I WOULD NOT bet I could find them all!

I know enough about modern computer networks that I'm SURE the manufactures have multiple ways of "connecting" to your car without your consent.

I believe this type of monitoring is un-ethical and should be illegal.

It makes your fully "purchased" item break the 5th amendment IMO.

Lease it or rent it, I'm OK with monitoring.

Buying it should make it yours ALONE!

@Montreal914 if you take your modern cell phone with you, you're "monitored" anyway. I'd bet there is not a really good way of verifing if the car itself can do the monitoring. A GPS is a MAJOR red flag IMO but I might be wrong.

@Superhawk996 you have anything to add?
I'd like your opinion on "how to tell if your car is a backstabbing tattletale".