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Connected car data handover headache: There's no quick fix... and it's NOT just Land Rovers

jake Silver badge

"So what happens when ALL cars MUST be connected to be declared road-worthy (so no, used cars are out as well)?"

There are, by some estimates, some 50,000,000 vehicles on US roads that are over 40 years old. These aren't all old junkers, these are carefully maintained family heirlooms. They are driven daily, both for utility and for fun. Outlawing all these vehicles would alienate a LOT of voters.

Manually driven, petrol powered, non-computerized, un-connected over-the-road vehicles will be with us for at least another century, and very probably much longer. I suspect that any politician who tries to change this will be tarred & feathered and run out of town on the rail.

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