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Older cars with minimal computers are going to become very popular soon.

The future is going to be bloody awful for our kids

I hope jailbreaking these systems becomes a big business.

The same thing is happening with "smart appliances". "Sorry, you can't wash your clothes because you've reached your water quota for today!"

Wow! Another one we ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ got right.

ITS CALLED POWER AND CONTROL THEY WONT STOP

The other issue here, that everyone seems to ignore, is the strange new idea that it is acceptable to change the terms and conditions of a contract, after the acceptance of that contract. We're hit with it over and over on phones, computers, software etc, and wrongly, we just accept it.

People will almost never believe that they've been convinced to fight for a system that oppresses them.

This is why the EU & the UK are trying to outlaw fixng old cars!

And THAT is why they want everyone in EV’s! It’s that simple.

The reason why the majority of people don't read terms and conditions of anything, is because there will be 20 to 30 pages of tiny print, in which they can hide anything they want.

Some of the draconian rules implemented during Covid should have been a wake-up call. I live in Scotland and at one point we were not permitted to cross the border into England and could only travel 5 km outside our local authority boundary. Imagine if this technology had been widespread at that time. There’s no question it would have been used IMO.

We are just blindly walking in to a dictatorship and no one really cares as long as they can watch Britains got Talent. Try to tell people and they laugh because they are too simply to look ‘underneath’ things yet will be the first ones to complain when they find their own rights restricted.

My little 20+ year old $1100 car is getting more and more valuable...

For us who live in the real world; we have known about this for years this has been discussed openly by car manufacturers, and even during the pandemic a lot of the stimulus money that was given to these corporations to make this happen. This is why “they” want everything you do to be connected to the net so they can track it, block it, and monitor it and of course, control it.

Imagin the next COVID lockdown when need to travel even for an emergency, and your car says NO YOU'RE STAYING HOME TODAY.

It's 1984, and "Big Brother" is watching. George Orwell seems to have become a prophet instead of just a writer.

Who didn't see this coming. As soon as I saw that new cars, ICE included, could be switched on and off remotely I knew what would follow. Do not buy cars with computers, cars that connect to the net. You will never own something if someone else gets to control it.

That's old news. In 2013 it was passed as law that all cars model year 2018 and newer, including internal combustion cars have remote engine cutoff. There were articles in the internet, that have now all been deleted.

I just realised this is the tip of the iceberg, they will be able to geo-fence your phone and your key card and you will literally be unable to go anywhere they don’t approve. Absolute total control!

Today I was driving behind a 1991 Toyota MR2. It was so nice to be able to see the indicators properly, flashing in a non-dazzling orange at a reasonable interval. Modern junk is a clown show.

Who needs this sh*t? Just get yourself a cheap, reliable 'old' car without all this junk . . .

Over here in the US, my best friend just got a brand new Hyundai Ioniq about 4 months ago. It has already had two recalls which he did not elaborate on. However, he was shocked to find out that the yearly registration of his fully electric vehicle was over $1700.00 because being electric he does not pay Road Use and Gasoline Taxes. So you get to pay what the government considers your share of the taxes and adds it to your registration fee. He stated this was never disclosed to him in any of the conversations he had with the dealership. I'll have to ask him about the geo-fencing updates.

I called this years ago. It’s frightening how people are sleep walking into giving up their freedom.

Is there really one single person left out there who doesn't see where all this is going too?

‘You vill not leave your 15-minute city! Eat ze bugz and stay in ze home!

Whether or not there is a phone card or not, it can still connect and receive commands via BLE mesh networks. 1984 is already here.

Thank you Geoff, and thank you to the person who told you about his very worrying discovery on page 30 of his un-asked for terms and conditions. Really serious.

This should be national news !!! Well done on bringing it to our notice

Not surprised people don't complain... 30+ pages of these "imposed" t&c's. It's a known fact that most people don't read them. Same for any contract these days. Accept our imposed terms or stop using the service.

More reasons to look after my 2000 Honda Insight that I have driven for a good 15 years so far.

Excellent thank you for the reportage Jeff

"My Wife is pregnant i must go to the hospital!!!" Car: "Sorry mate.... you've ran out of Mile tokens, no car for you"

I’ll be sticking with my 1997 Audi A3. Had her over 10 years now and she’s still a joy to drive.

I recently had solar installed at home. I was going to buy the Tesla battery when the salesman proudly told me about their safety feature "it's monitored from Australia so they can turn it off remotely if there's a safety issue". Huh, what? They can turn off my solar whenever they choose without my permission? Er, yes... Needless to say, I went with another battery, that was smaller for similar money, but couldn't be remotely turned off. I wonder how many solar owners realise their self sufficient solar system can be turned off whenever the government chooses.

This is a breaking point on consumer trust. Putting in something that we did not know would damage everyone.

The moral of the story , buy an old analogue , ICE car and stash it for the day that Skynet goes live !! : )

Geo fence? That means they can stop you leaving and entering certain areas.

I think if a car company offered an ice car that sat 4 adults, standard transmission, carburetor, distributor with no transistors, windows that you windup by hand, a heating system with leavers that allowed air to flow without being forced by a fan, standard steering no power assist, standard breaks , no power assist. It would sell out, so much so the company would have a hard time keeping up.

1984 is nearly here, as is Idiocracy. The latter is what makes the former possible.

Here in Canada, we did a test build of smart phone based geo-fencing in a large shopping mall and surrounding few blocks a few years back. We could limit people coming and going based on practically any criteria we wanted - income, job type, medical details, criminal history, who they're with, even down to what they just bought for lunch. We could alert the people thru amber-alert style warning alarms, or have it 'silent' so only the administrators knew that a breach was happening and then automate various actions to take on top of all that. I know the city ended up getting $4.7B to continue the roll out of the plan on a larger scale by the federal gov't and since then the feds have also poured similar amounts into other major cities to roll out the same system 'for monitoring' purposes only (so far). It's being done under the guise of "smart cities" so watch for that term to become more and more prevalent in the media.

I was told I was being paranoid and a conspiracy theorist when I said that cars will be remotely controlled to stay in certain areas at certain times. How else are 15 minute cities going to work? Time to invest in a horse and cart.

Wasn't expecting to laugh in this video, but I laughed so much at the line through the km/h and the mph written in pen on the top trumps card 🤣 no metric here, thank you very much! Great informative video thank you, even though I'm more worried where this is going to end up 😆 subscribed 👍🙏

Information from your car is also sold to data resellers. Data on speed and etc is of interest to your insurance company.

This has really shocked me. I sell new Toyota's for a large dealership in CQ Australia. When I return to work I'll have to look into this. Every vehicle I sell has an SOS button, and I don't believe the car needs to be a BEV to be controlled remotely. I guess I knew this was coming but not yet ffs! I will need to be careful about who I question and what I ask, or it will likely cost me my job. This is very bad news for all of us. How we stop this though, I don't know.

Consent is given when you click 'accept'. How many people click on EULAs without reading the terms? Once you click 'accept' you're effed.

This video has just given a brilliant business idea. Thank you

I told people that the EU would be mandating putting tracking on all new cars years ago and no one believed me. They do all this shit by stealth or clever marketing it as "for your benefit or safety". I deliberately bought a 10 year old BMW. They keep telling me it's due for a software update. When I ask them what it does, they don't know. I say, it's not broke, why fix it?

And friends wonder why I keep spending money to keep my 20+ years old on the road!

Thanks for the heads-up Geoff

You've got a lovely view of the chemtr... I mean contrails there at the end. 😂

Told you demoltion man was not a movie 😂😂😂

Electric Porsche is geofenced as well my brother threw the keys back at the garage

My Peugeot 308, bought as an ex demonstrator from a main dealership in 2014, so almost brand new and a 14 plate, has the capability of sending an SOS. I think this been around a lot longer than you think. My car, although now ten years old has a lot of the bells and whistles, such as emergency calling, satnav built in, tyre pressure monitor, speed set availability, etc, etc and I get the occasional message from the dealer telling me of the availability of a software update. However, apart from the first couple of years, I didn't see any point and have not updated. I now realise that that was probably a good move. Thanks Geoff.

So those people warning us about 15 minute cities being a slippery slope were right all along?

My 1973 Rover has plenty of hi-tech Lane control - Steering wheel Crumple Zones - The bumper bars, crumple the other car Sat Nav - The Mrs sat alongside I could go on !!!!

This needs to go viral. Please send this to as many peeps as you can !

little bit of everything in that one. keep 'em coming 😉

Greetings from SF Bay Area California! "Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky", 10:25 and 10:38, see those lovely 'contrail' filled skies. Excellent report; thumbs up!

In the 50's an aunt and uncle emigrated to New Zealand. They used to have "car less" days back then when you were not allowed to drive your car one day per week. So if a family had two cars each car would be banned on a different day but you were expected to use public transport. That was in the sixties.

No such thing as conspiracy theories, just convenience theories. The cars I own are always 10years old or older because I don't want nor need fancy lcd gauges or everything ran from a poxy tablet all I want plain and simple driving with twizzly heater gauges and a radio/cassette or cd player that'll do!

I'm so happy that of my three vehicles, the oldest is 37 years old.

This video is impossible to talk about anywhere without the comment getting removed instantly. That’s youtube proving you right.

Living in not so sunny Devon Geoff we have had rain for 6 months, the last sunny day was 6th October last year and the reason I know this was because this was the last decent motorbike ride out me and my lad had to Lynton and Lynmouth. Food shortages perhaps due to farmers unable to plant crops and put cattle back into waterlogged fields 🤔 I’m well aware of the plane activity that goes on here, I’ve even seen them doing U turns to cover patches that they missed!

In the USA, many large new farm tractors use geofencing to prevent theft. If the tractor wanders off the reservation, it turns into a very large paperweight.

I absolutely never get tired of telling people I told you so

I did some further digging, and it’s more of a fleet management feature. Both the geofencing and geotiming capabilities are used with a companion app. It’s usually used by companies and municipalities as part of its fleet management.

This has been rumored for ages and I guess we are steps nearer to it becoming reality. Same with those blasted Smart Meters in homes which is why I am resisting one as long as I can. ‘They’ decide when we can have electricity. As mentioned. 1984.

Ive been flying drones for a few years now. After a while you learn to say "NO" to updates as your activities become ridiculously controlled and the drone rendered almost useless. Lesson for us all there.

Thanks for the info, we own a 2015 Suzuki Vitara which I now need to check re this Geofencing /timing crap. Am I pleased we still have our other older very reliable vehicles where one still has the original AM Radio in so no tracking device in that one LOL. Oh the sky was looking a bit dodgy with those trails and just wondered if it did rain and don't worry we get get them here in NZ as well. cheers Glenn

Ask anyone in jail for J6 in Washington DC what geofencing is and you won’t want that on your car.

And people still don't believe there's an agenda to either get us out of our cars or limit where we can go or what we can do. I had my service on a 22 VW end of Feb, I was told over the phone when booking that there was a software update available for install, which I politely declined, especially after I asked for a changelog list for the update, which she was unable to provide. As far as I can tell VW hasn't implemented any geo related capabilities, yet, but I'm not interested in any software updates knowing what I knew about EU black box event data recorder plans before buying (EU EDR laws came into effect from summer 2022), and that dealerships can't tell me what's in software updates. I'm never buying a new car again, if I swap, it will be an older car.

You've started something now.PEOPLE falling in luv with old 850s

Thanks Geoff. Just be thankful you're even allowed to drive autonomously. There will come a time.

Honestly, this has existed for years in the rental car market (to stop people driving cars that they failed to keep up to date on the payments for; I've heard of it more in America than the UK), but it was done via an add-on board rather than being built into the car itself. The geofencing / geotiming capabilities are most likely only going to be used by insurance companies (e.g. for geofenced/geotimed insurance policies) or by the courts in an ASBO-style system (for problematic drivers who still need to be able to drive, i.e. teenagers who drag race on residential streets at night), something they can already do via the add-on boards. While some people do discuss the "no-car days", it's generally so unpopular with the populace that no-one would actually try to implement it. Soft measures (such as congestion charges, ULEZ etc.) do a much better job while being more palatable (rather than being told you can't drive your car, you just have to pay an extra charge which discourages you from doing so). The inclusion of these capabilities isn't pleasant, but it's no worse than what's already available on the market. As for the statement of cars being fully autonomous, but 'not yet switched on', the lack of detail there is a bit misleading. The cars have the sensors and actuators to drive themselves (just look at the auto-parking features), but the software isn't ready for it and so they can't 'switch it on'. Once the software catches up, they're not just going to upgrade older models for free, they'll make you buy the new model for the self-driving capabilities.

I had my VW Golf disconnected from the net and then I had installed an aftermarket performance tune.

This has been a thing for ages. Any car with wireless ECU capability (which is every car for the past 15 or so years) is capable of the same, they just base it off of known position and milage done according to the ECU. They don't need GPS based geofencing. There was even a leak maybe 8 years ago from the NSA ( I wish I could remember the name, like all big names it got one of those silly names) talking about using wireless ECU functionality as an assassination tool by causing stuck throttles and brake failure via the ECU. The leak was from around the same time as all of those toyotas had stuck throttle incidents in the news, which obviously caused people to speculate.

I'll say it again ICE ICE baby! Keeping my 1994 RAV4 on the road as long as I possibly can. My other car is a 1995 Celica, was thinking of selling but might rethink that.

Lovely view, especially those very long "clouds" that stretch out like ropes across the sky. Better grab your jacket tomorrow, lots of rain coming your way. 😉

Hi Geoff, have you read about the recent petition on LED headlights. Over 100k have signed up and now has to be discussed in parliament. Have to say it's not being reported in MSM. Problems with brightness and glare......too powerful and have to agree. Perhaps you can look into this and do a vlog!!

You can see why there is intrest in pre electronic tractors which operated by rods and cables and ran on any old fuel you might find. If everybody won't to demonstrate against the Government at the moment we just jump into our car and arrive in London. In the future somebody switch everybody's cars off. The Government says we never noticed any demonstration. This happened in the past the Police stopped coach's and trains before they reached London. Public security is protecting the 1%from the 99%.

When I bought my 2018 Forester XT, I was bummed, that we in Germany did not get eyesight, nor the updated infotainment. But the more I hear about the nightmarish implications of the new technology, the more I am happy to own such a recent and new „old“ car.

I cannot believe how low the government will go; I thought a rattlesnake's belly in a rut was low, but the UK government beat that by a mile.

Love the dystopian sky shot at the end. I mean, who needs the sun anyway? Anyone else ever get the feeling they are already here and acclimatising the place to suit themselves....??

"Stopping people driving their cars on a Sunday" to save the planet wouldn't bother me as I can go for a ride on my vintage tractor!

Hi Jeff, need to share a story from yesterday as told from my mother. A friend of my mothers has a(i think) a 2 year old hyundai ev. She (mums friend) went on holiday (she does this a few times a uear) but this time did 3 weeks instead of a week to 10 days. When she got back found her ev (hyunfai) was not working. She called the garage and well they picked it up...couple of days later and the batteries are no good...not charged and would take charge and you believe this but it was classed as a write-off. I don't know much more than this but my mothers friend will be or has bought another car but its going to be an i.c.e. as she misses some of her first cars that ALWAYS worked/started even when left in the barn for a year or years. This person is not short for money as you can guess from holidays a year and to far away places. Just adding to other ev stories and the problems so beware.

This is why all my cars are more than twenty years old. No tracking or self diagnosing/driving computer on my 2005 Ford Focus.

Wall to wall grey up here. burning logs to keep warm.

And this is why old cars are the way forward

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Great video , I shared it

The answer is simple, physically disconnect the modem and have it written out via software manipulation to remove the warning light.

"they" told us this control and tracking of e v would be happening AGES ago before ev s were on the market

I like my Scion xB, had it for almost 10 years now, still runs great.

A US "Lorrie" manufacturer called Frieghtliner has been installing "blackboxes" in their trucks for decades. Probably a "testbed" of sorts. Geofencing has been used in trucking for decades. Its been refined over the years. And yes car makers have been installing blackboxes for much longer than the public knows. Idk exactly when they started using them but they have them. Not a giant leap to connect blackboxes to a gps to a blue tooth to cars computer to cell or wifi. I remember a trucking company tested their "shutdown" kill switch on one of their trucks when the driver went over his legal 10 hour (back then our driving limit was 10 hours compared to 11 now) allowable drive time and whoever was in charge of "the button" back at HQ shut the truck off and the driver was left with no power steering and was forced to let the truck coast over to the right shoulder on a major east/west interstate highway. Needless to say that didn't go over very well with the state highway patrol. I remember other similar incidents but after so many years the details are fading. After that we never heard much more about those control freak devices being installed on anymore trucks. It was basically just used as a recorder for archiving data for use at a later date. Fast forward to now and apparently the control freaks are back in charge looking to wreak havoc on freedom loving people again. I'd love to own an 850. Not many used/for sale around where i live in Ohio. P.S. just my opinion, but if i were you i would hold onto atleast 1 dependable older pre internet/cell connected car for the foreseeable future, just in case some nitwit decides to push the shutdown button again, they have a track record of doing that sort of thing. Ya it was clear & sunny this past weekend, but im a trucker and i was in the western part of Ohio Monday and saw long thin clouds that somehow grew as they blew east and Tuesday it was awfully cloudy after that. Can't wait to see what they're cooking up today. 👍🏻

Well done for highlighting the chemical spoiling of our atmosphere.

This also applies to smart online diesels and Petrol vehicles. Disconnect the Gps aerials. Most e-sim cards are in the radios

That's mad, ima stick with my 90s to mid 2000s cars forever ❤

Been saying this same thing for years now. Oh, how they laughed.... Right AGAIN!... Thanks Jeff for exposing this sham to the masses.