Wonder if you can hack the laser rangefinder to work as a remote window listening device :)

the photonic flatulence can be a problem

suggest non-flammable cheese if possible

Well, there's one. And they almost certainly knew it would be discontinued before they agreed to sell it, so you get to blame the devs (who became google employees) at least as much as google itself.

You could do that by giving each of them a key, though. or just let them push a button. I admit I have to hold the button down as the settings shift from one to the next, which is slightly less convenient than simply having the car recognize you, but I have a car from 1997 that's got four presets per front side. The driver's side sets the wheel and mirrors in addition to the seat.

Now now, I think it's probably safe to say that some of them only made out.

I mean, seriously, you've seen people with their pets, right? DEE-scusting.

The more I drive my 1982 car without computers in it, the more I wish it had one along with a lockup TC

I conclude that you therefore never made the trade to begin with, and were thus completely unaffected.

Most phones that are expensive enough to care about are quad-band anyway, so that covers basic phone functionality. And since the USA is one of the most primitive cellphone markets in the world, it's not hard to find a phone which covers the commonly used "high-speed" wireless technologies, either. The provider lock is a bigger deal, but it's rare it costs more than $15 for an online unlock.

Because broadcast is a likely synonym for transmit (and vice versa) but not for transport, and no broadcast is occurring — in fact, precisely the opposite — "transport" is probably a better word to describe what they do.

It should be available to all, because they're not infringing upon broadcast rights designed to ensure that content and commercials are delivered together.

How much did you pay for those services?

If I'm going to need to log in to the car anyway, then there's no need to recognize a personal device that I might not have on me, or might have loaned to one of the passengers. They might even be using it for communications, and I don't want to have to get it back from them before approaching the vehicle. The face recognition is superior to any other solution provided you don't actually rely on it for security, or it's actually good enough to be useful for that, because I don't have to have anything but my face for it to work. Equally, I have to have an override, because what if there is something wrong with my face?

If you're already going to identify people, there's no reason not to do it with their face.

Actually, I didn't even think about how awesome it would be for that. For cars which are actually valet parked often, they could have a dedicated valet button. Everyone else would access it through the infotainment system. When you activated valet mode, it would still permit use of the car, but only up to parking lot speeds. It could also take some snapshots of the driver any time the car was being driven any way other than extremely casually, where laws permit. The limited speed and the fact that one might be recorded would be displayed on the cluster panel.

If I were sure that I were in control of the data on my car, then that would be fine. If I roll-my-own and it's cryptographically sound and takes 2FA then okay, all is well. If it's got all the personal security of On* then fuckit, fuckit twice, and fuckit thrice.

I would love it if the cars had the cameras and the display with touch preinstalled, and they came out to USB cables in a special little compartment where you install whatever you want, whether that's a dedicated machine designed for the purpose, a RasPi and a USB hub, or a phone dock. But HAHAHAHA. So basically, I want it, but donotwanttheirs.

No, they formed them through the internet, like everyone else these days. Where do you think these people live, anyway?

Don't worry, they will just slash and burn the [remaining] forests to provide arable land. What could possibly go wrong?