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I'm not going to watch the video so my comment is based on the title (why everything needs to be a video nowadays, just give me an article to read or at least a summary together with the video...)
Yeah no fucking shit... And Tesla is not even the worse out there (and not for a lack of trying), if you consider the analysis done by the Mozilla foundation of the privacy policies of a bunch of major car companies. You dont even have to be the owner of the car, if you ride in one as a passenger you are giving permission for the use of your data in the most crazy absurd ways.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/
There's just no company to be trusted. Unless your car is very old, you dont have privacy.
Precisely why I drive a '97. Also less electronics and shitty plastic parts, and I can fabricate a field repair out of almost anything.
My dad has the '21 model of the same car, it's crazy at how much it phones home.
I didn't expand on the topic, but the fact that you only have privacy if your car is old doesn't mean the solution is to buy and maintain old cars. Old cars contaminate more and your car is close to be 30 years old. Its a lose-lose situation for consumers. As usual the solution is not to hide or prohibit new tech. Having cameras in the car is extremely valuable, now we just need to regulate it to ensure the consumer is protected from over-reach.
The additional incremental emissions are tiny relative to a new car. If we could convince the entire planet to keep cars for 30 years (jk only rich countries need convincing) the world would be a better place.
I'll add that with how streets are in the US, even new cars are not getting good milage. Mine is much newer but when my longest drive is like 20 miles and most of my time is <5 mile drives on surface streets...I get about 20 mpg....same as my car from the 90s.