A woman said an Audi loaner car’s Lytx camera recorded her conversations, sparking privacy concerns over dealership fleet monitoring.
A woman said an Audi loaner car’s Lytx camera recorded her conversations, sparking privacy concerns over dealership fleet monitoring.
No car is required to have no physical buttons. They do that because it’s cheaper for the screen to be a touchscreen than to spend pennies on buttons. The regulation only specifies that there has to be a camera. The screen can still be controlled by buttons or rotary dials. Mercedes was still doing that up till the early 2020s for some models. My 2019 C-Class had no touch screen, despite having a nice wide and clear screen. Exactly how I preferred it.
If theres gonna be regulation, I want it regulated that every car have physical buttons, and blinding high beams are illegal, modem connectivity is illegal, and subscription seats are illegal along with locked down ecus that can only be unlocked at dealers (see: Volkswagen electronic e brakes) being illegal. This is how legislation should work for us but it doesn’t. We get garbage that makes all our lives worse.