Hello people, my family recently bought a Renault 5 e-tech. The car itself is great, but there are some aspects that creep me out, especially the driver-facing camera. We didn’t actually know that such a camera existed before we bought the car, it was only mentioned as the car was given to us.
The cameras official purpose is to see, if you are tired and paying attention to the road, by some “AI magic”, I suppose. You can also let it scan your face, so that you automatically get logged into your profile.
I personally think, that that is kinda creepy, especially as there is no visual indication if the camera is currently recording and no official way to disable the camera hardware-wise. When it is being coverd, the car immediately complains about it.
When talking to friends or family about it, I got one of two reactions: equal concern, or “nice feature actually”, “what about the camera on your laptop?”, “you are way too paranoid”, “I have noting to hide; it is only me driving being recorded”.
I have also seen such cameras in other cars, BYD for example.
What do you think, is this creepy or am I too paranoid? Does anyone know where the actual data is processed, on device or on some cloud server? Do you have any experience with such cameras? I couldn’t really find any information about it on the internet.
The bought and paid for media really have it under wraps.
Nothing we can do anyway. Except dont buy new cars. And those of us who care about this arent buying new cars. Rich folk will continue doing it. Businesses will have zero issue with it.
This will continue until old cars are illegal, and there will be an underground mafia of sorts to cull all of the spare parts suppliers so you will not be able to fix them. There will be a black market for car parts for those brave enough to dare drive a non spyware car. They will be jailed for it. Mark my words, this is their plan.