Mixed feelings

[Jogeephus]

I got an email from my truck today saying my left front tire was 6 lbs low. Just checked the tire and it is exactly that. :shock: Email went on to say my oil has 32% life left in it and that there is a recall on a hose fitting on the transmission and I should bring it in to have it checked. Gave me the name and number of who to call and a map of how to get there.

Pretty cool or pretty intrusive? Not sure which.

 

[regolith]

I like e-mails because they're the least intrusive method of communicating with someone - you view them in your own time and ignore them if you wish.
It could have been worse. Your truck could have called your cellphone while you were multi-tasking cooking three separate dishes (as two people did last night, and another two people yesterday morning mid-cut while I was sawing firewood)
or it could have knocked on your door, as other people did the day before while I was re-fuelling myself, and it's very rude to eat in front of people without offering to share but it was only half a mandarin...

So yes, I think it's cool. My truck doesn't tell me it's losing tyre pressure till the steering starts to get heavy.

 

[CottageFarm]

I got an email from my truck today saying my left front tire was 6 lbs low. Just checked the tire and it is exactly that. :shock: Email went on to say my oil has 32% life left in it and that there is a recall on a hose fitting on the transmission and I should bring it in to have it checked. Gave me the name and number of who to call and a map of how to get there.

Pretty cool or pretty intrusive? Not sure which.

Both, I think... :help:

 

[branguscowgirl]

10 years ago I would not have liked it much Jo. Now I rely on my computer a bit too much IMO. I think that it's cool.
You must have a pretty snazzy truck! All mine tells me is "WASH ME" written in the dust sometimes! :shock: I still can't figure out how it does that either.

 

[cow pollinater]

All technology in a vehicle is intrusive for me. I have yet to find a modern truck with electronics that can stand rattling around on dairies and at the ranch. If I have to re-set my seat belt minder once every three days and twice a week my truck tells me I'm using the wrong key the first eight times I insert the key then I dam sure don't need e-mails telling me what my truck thinks. I'd have an inbox full of honey-do's so big my wife would get jelous of my truck.

 

[highgrit]

These new vehicles are very intrusive to our privacy. Just another way to keep track of the working class.

 

[john250]

I hate talking machines. When your truck comments on your wife's perfume, I'd trade it.

 

[presmudjo]

My neighbor has one of those new cars that breaks for you and all that. Computers do alot with that car. She believes Fl state trooper shut her car down with EMP when she was near Okeechobee, which was near the FEMA camp. Don't know what to think on that, but with our government I would tend to believe it.

 

[Jogeephus]

Am pretty sure they could shut me down with just a phone call. Not sure how I feel about all this information being collected on my vehicle. Its good in some ways but where does it end? One day will I be given a ticket when the computer alerts the police that I was speeding? Or will it void my warranty when I drive it an extra mile after the scheduled oil change? Lots of data being collected somewhere.

All that dark stuff aside I must confess that letting the air out of the tires and checking the air pressure via the internet is much more interesting than watching a cicada molt. ;-) :lol2:

 

[Nesikep]

I would say it's cool, certainly, but I have a complete lack of trust in corporations and gov't, so I don't like the idea they know my every move.. it's getting hard to avoid though, cell phones, facial recognition, and the whole works. My 94 diesel truck can be started on a hill with absolutely no battery.. I kinda like that idea.

Jo, so you can let the air out of your tires over the internet???? Can't see how anything like that could ever go wrong!.. Cops won't need to shut down your engine, they can just make you go flat!, no need for spike strips anymore

 

[Jogeephus]

I can't let the air out of the tires with the computer but I can check the air pressure in each tire with the computer. Anyone want to buy a tire pressure gauge? :lol2: :lol2:

 

[pdfangus]

all these high tech bells and whistles are one reason a new automobile now cost more than I paid for my house.........

I am driving a 2007 E250 van and I hope to drive it as long as I am still driving.....I even have to crank the windows up and down with my hand.....door locks require a key...as does the ignition....and it never says a word to me unless I turn on the radio or that bossy old gal in the gps.....the dogs are the only people allowed in it with me....

 

[Chuckie]

My 1996 Toyota Tacoma has yet to send me an email. It must be a male. But I am going to drive it until it is the oldest Toyota on the road. I will be pouring arthritis medicine in the gas tank by then. Even my 4-wheeler, a Honda Foreman 400 is 1998 model. It has never left me a post it note either.

pdfangus, the only people that ride with me in my Toyota and 4-wheeler are dogs too. :nod:

 

[slick4591]

I used to get those when I subscribed to On Star. They magically went away when I didn't pay anymore. However, when active, it is really good at tracking down stolen vehicles.

 

[Jalopy]

Even though this is all supposedly protected information the combined information is available to the manufacturers so they get this free information to project future wants and needs.They can then sell this information to their suppliers of their needs.
The same is true for the information being gathered by farm equipment manufacturers from satellite gathered information.
So who among us really owns their own information?

 

[pdfangus]

Even though this is all supposedly protected information the combined information is available to the manufacturers so they get this free information to project future wants and needs.They can then sell this information to their suppliers of their needs.
The same is true for the information being gathered by farm equipment manufacturers from satellite gathered information.
So who among us really owns their own information?

me....in my old vehicle and my even older tractor...tractor is probably 30 years old...looking into getting a collar fitted for my big mare so I can step farther back in time....

 

[Jogeephus]

I used to get those when I subscribed to On Star. They magically went away when I didn't pay anymore. However, when active, it is really good at tracking down stolen vehicles.

That's what this is. They gave a six month complimentary subscription. I didn't know On Star did all it did. Not sure if I'll renew it or not because I have mixed feelings about all this information they are collecting but I am sure just as they can turn it off they can just as easily turn it back on without me knowing about it.

One thing I really like though is the navigation. I had to go to an odd part of Atlanta the other day and without the navigation I would have had a lot of trouble finding the place. But my phone has navigation too.

 

[pdfangus]

I used to get those when I subscribed to On Star. They magically went away when I didn't pay anymore. However, when active, it is really good at tracking down stolen vehicles.

That's what this is. They gave a six month complimentary subscription. I didn't know On Star did all it did. Not sure if I'll renew it or not because I have mixed feelings about all this information they are collecting but I am sure just as they can turn it off they can just as easily turn it back on without me knowing about it.

One thing I really like though is the navigation. I had to go to an odd part of Atlanta the other day and without the navigation I would have had a lot of trouble finding the place. But my phone has navigation too.

I still use and old windshield mounted Garmin and it has really hleped me a time or two....misled us a time or two as well but I still like it....if you can use it to navigate they can use it to keep an eye on you if they want too....but anyone who wants to watch me these days is in dire need of entertainment cause there ain't much to see....I tell em to watch on...we won't have any problems till you come after me...
but I am glad we did not have all this stuff in my days of being a rounder....

 

[Jogeephus]

The navigation is really helpful and I'm with you about anyone watching me because they would have to be bored out of their gourdes to find me of any interest. I guess the good thing with all this technology and surveillance is our children and grandchildren will not need to remember 911 as the emergency number. I believe now all you need do is pick up the phone and start talking. All this reminds me of a story an old gentleman told me about the ATF. This fella made a good bit of whiskey during his younger days and was out working in his corn field when he got a pain and headed to the bushes. As he squatted to do his business a glimmer or reflection caught his eye and he looked across the field to see an ATF agent watching him squat through a pair of binoculars. Times have certainly changed.

 

[clueless]

I personally am not a big fan of the new technology. Watch a little blurb on TV about a year ago on how some hackers could hack the new systems. Even shut their test car down while it drove by.

I can't get away from them but I sure wish they would stay out of somethings.