Comment by 🚀 stack
I am not sure a low-end 2013 Ford has a call-home capability. It has no GPS that I know off, and the previous owner replaced the radio with an aftermarket cluster with a Sony screen for some reason. It works with. Google car for 10 min. and disconnects saying no compatible USB device...
Also the battery dies after a day if not disconnected. It's totally ghetto and I like that.
Apr 19 · 3 weeks ago
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I am not sure a low-end 2013 Ford
My Chevy of that era does via on-star, but I don't think Ford was doing anything like that, GM pioneered it. The 2001 Pontiac minivan I learned to drive in even had on-star.
I don't know what on-star is able to gather from it, but it still has to connect to the cellular network because cellphones have to be able to call 911 without an account.
I wouldn't be terrilby surprised to learn that on-star can get location data from unsubscribed vehicles though. I doubt they have individual cellular contracts for each vehicle that subscribes.
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on the topic of the shoe shape though, are you talking about that style where the car is really wide at the bottom, then gets goes in a couple inches right around where the window is?
It works with. Google car for 10 min. and disconnects saying no compatible USB device...
I don't know how google car is supposed to work, but when I was driving a work vehicle that had it I had a very specific ritual I had to perform for it to work. I think I had to connect to bluetooth first, and then connect the USB cable. I might have had to hit some button in the phone too in between.
🚀 lars_the_bear · Apr 19 at 15:31:
@drh3xx : I agree but, if we do nothing, we have nobody to blame but ourselves when bad shit happens.
The problem, as I've discovered, is not that our elected representatives are acting in bad faith (although I'm sure some are), but that they are incapable of understanding the issues. For some reason, we like to be lead by posh boys whose lips move when they read. Even when they're well-meanig, these aren't people you can have a technical conversation with.
@lars_the_bear I think you have a higher opinion of those who lead than myself. I think though some may enter politics to improve things, by the time they get somewhere they can make a difference they have reoriented to maximise their benefit either naturally or because they owe others that have gotten them there.
I think its time for individuals to do what's right, not what is legal.
🚀 stack [OP] · Apr 19 at 18:18:
@lamb-duh, the sneaker shape I am referring to is the profile...
My Android Auto or whatever it's called requires a USB wire, then for some reason also connects via Bluetooth, then after some minutes (usually at the worst time, when I need to exit freeway in heavy traffic near Chicago with 10 ways of going in the wrong direction) disconnects.
I then gave to unplug and replug it, nearly causing accidents as Google maps simultaneously loses the settings.
I think it's trying to kill me.
I think we need an age limit for elected leaders. I definitely got dumber at 55 or so.
I think we need an age limit for elected leaders. I definitely got dumber at 55 or so.
I think we need an age limit for elected leaders. I definitely got dumber at 55 or so.
🚀 lars_the_bear · Apr 20 at 06:52:
@stack : "I then gave to unplug and replug it, nearly causing accidents as Google maps simultaneously loses the settings."
In the UK, there are still enough areas with no cell coverage that you'd be nuts to use Google Maps for navigation -- although plenty of people try.
Self-contained automotive GPS units are dirt cheap and work, in my experience, better than anything built into a vehicle, and certainly better than any smartphone app. They generally rely on a smartphone app to get live updates, but that puts you into telemetry territory again, so I don't bother.
👻 darkghost · Apr 20 at 12:50:
Huh? Speak up! What's this about a cage limit for refracted cheerleaders?
🚀 lars_the_bear · Apr 20 at 16:54:
Huh? What all this about electric cheerleaders? Where did I put my specs?
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Such Ugly Cars — I can't imagine buying a new car. Aside from the stupidity of dozens of computers, cameras that spy on you with a hidden internet connection, they look like total s**t. I was walking the dog today, and every car parked in the street looks like an ugly sneaker. Drives like a car, looks like a sneaker.