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For now, I can't imagine my next car being anything but a Tesla.

I have an i3 now and after my lease is up, I will absolutely either get a Model 3 or Y. There's just no other electric car comparable that will allow you to road-trip without worrying about charger access.

Is privacy an option yet?

You'd have to be more specific than that. You can disable data sharing if you prefer.

"Data sharing" is pretty vague but assuming you are talking about car data, it's completely decoupled from the VIN or any other identifiers that could ID you, so disabling it is just silly, but yes you can choose to not opt in.

Does "car data" include locations? There's not many people that start from area A (~500m^2 around your home) and go to area Z (~500m^2 around your office) every weekday morning, and back again every weekday evening.

And yep, this applies to anything that offers vague rudimentary location monitoring.

Correct, many folks don’t realize how much can be derived about them from even anonymous data.

Personally not interested in all this auto pilot stuff anyway. Deceleration when approaching an object and rudimentary lane assist are all I’d care for and shouldn’t require machine learning.

It does include location if you stop at a supercharger. They need to know where you were in order to charge you properly. I don't think that's one you could opt-out.

> They need to know where you were in order to charge you properly.

Not sure why that would be true. Perhaps it can help them a tiny bit, but not worth my privacy.

Yup. Give me your rough starting location and ending location, one inbound phone number and one outbound and you can probably be uniquely identified.

>it's completely decoupled from the VIN or any other identifiers that could ID you

Anonymized data isn't really anonymous

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170803/14480037916/once-...

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2185458/microsoft-resea...

https://www.wired.com/2007/12/why-anonymous-data-sometimes-i...

https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.p...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90278465/sorry-your-data-can-sti...

I'm waiting for the electric self-driving RV. Who needs a house?

Interesting, so your house drops you off at work, and then picks you up later.

We'll probably see this before we see mass adoption of remote work.

My hope is that your mobile bedroom/living room/office drives around and plugs into shared, communal kitchen/laundry/exercise/living room areas. You do your work during the transit portion and spend your free time enjoying the destinations and other people.

An electric RV would be quite interesting.

Cover the roof with solar panels (say 40' x 8' = 10 x 500w panels = 5000 watts of electricity). 8h x 5kw = 40kwh.

If the battery pack was a 1000d, you could move with a full charge once a month for free.

Or you could use it for living too (fridge, range, etc)

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