Modern cars are spy hubs on wheels, tracking your location, conversations, and behavior.

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    Sure, but IIRC, there’s a federal law requiring certain devices to be included in a new car. That probably doesn’t include a rebuild, but it could if that becomes a popular enough option to avoid it. It’s also usually quite expensive.

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      Yeah and even if someone is just making barebones frames for kit builds, I think there are legal limits on the number of kit cars that a single shop can do in a year. But those are corporate protectionist laws that we should probably get rid of.

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      Would hope for EU to not have these laws, but I feel like that would be too much hope

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        The EU seems to being going full steam on destroying privacy too, so I wouldn’t bet on it.

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          Unfortunately yeah… I believe they are talking about reviving Chat Control 1.0 today… Once again

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            The institution can propose the unpopular policy more times than a population unable or unwilling to alter the institution can smack it down.

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              True, so far we’ve been fighting this peacefully, and they keep coming back… Maybe we need to push harder against

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      A lot of states dont have inspections anymore. How would they know if I converted an old car to an EV?