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> Today when you will buy "connected" car the manufacturer wants YOU to pay the internet bill for your car.

My Toyota has an optional subscription to allow its data connection to be used for roadside assistance services, but the connection is always there regardless (and is used by Toyota to push updates to the car's touchscreen software without me paying for any subscription).

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One thing is sending telemetry and occasional update to a car. Could be done via pre-charged SIM on X GB to hold during the cars warranty. Other thing is uploading GBs of data from sensors and cameras.

This isn't an issue. At some point there will be "safe driving subsidies" paid by the government to car manufacturers who opt-in to uploading all footage into NSA-approved databases. I know what you're thinking..."oh, the old slippery slope blah blah" but PRISM is alive and well (and nobody gives a shit that it's alive and well) so things like this are entirely within the range of "could easily happen with very little effort."

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