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Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat (www.asahi.com)
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Nissan Motor Co. said it has developed a new type of paint that significantly reduces the temperature inside vehicles parked in direct sunlight.

The surface of a car coated with the innovative material remains up to 12 degrees cooler than that of a vehicle with standard paint, tests showed.

The company said the coating material can help rein in the temperature rise not only on the car's body but also in the vehicle when exposed to direct sunlight.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nissan also detects you having sex in the car and phones the info home.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

My wife's going to be pissed when she gets that call...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m curious where that’s from? News, or you made up from privacy policy?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mozilla's analysis if the policies, see my other comment in the thread.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Okay, I found one.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

But I guess it’s to clarify what kind of data could possibly be collected and not that they actively collect and use them. I guess Ford can do that too, although they don’t specify in their privacy policy.

They’re not interested in your sexual orientation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

But, like, why is that listed then? Why would Kia and Nissan say they collect information on your "sex life" and "sexual activity" respectively of they're not? What's to gain from keeping the window open if you're using it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So fucking glad I got my car before they added all this shit.

It's going to prevent me from getting any EVs that come out that I can afford too. I'm not signing a fucking privacy policy for a car.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My car has an antenna for a network that no longer exists and I'm so happy about it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, EVs are the worst kind of the privacy-invasive cars I agree

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What ahaha.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Their privacy policy includes a provision that they can use the cameras and GPS to infer things such as sexual orientation, so yeah.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which cameras?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think they have interior cameras (although other manufacturers do), but the front and backup camera feeds provide plenty of information as well.

Then there's also this, if you need any more reason to be concerned.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think they have interior cameras

Can just stop there. Unless people are banging on the bonnet, not sure what the point is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you read the linked article you will find that exterior cameras feeds are plenty invasive enough.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't disagree, but this is what was said:

Nissan also detects you having sex in the car

Unless there are cameras in the car then no.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

There are enough sensors in cars to detect a rythmic motion. It doesn't need cameras for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

While this fucked up, documenting sexual orientation is not exactly recording sex. Someone could simply use GPS and see that the only place in the area that's open is the gay bar and infer from that, or even lip reading.