I just think its funny, out of the hundreds of questions put to him, mine was the one that got under his skin. He's a hack that's never even worked on cars.
The idea expressed in the below meme is one of the major reasons I bought a 2021 Mirage. Yes, it has some technology I'd rather not be present, but it's still a totally off-the-grid vehicle. I'd rather not have the black box internal data recorder, or the forward collision avoidance, or TPMS (the best Tire Pressure Monitoring System is my grandfather's old air pressure gauge), or 48-gazillion airbags that will never save me in a real crash due to the tiny frame. But those things aren't the same as inviting cameras and microphones to record everything I do and where I do it using pinpoint GPS location data.
I recently drove a 2019 Toyota that had the following sticker on the headliner:
VEHICLE DATA TRANSMISSION IS ON! Your vehicle wirelessly transmits location, driving and vehicle health data to deliver your services and for internal research and data analysis. See www.toyota.com/privacyvts. To disable, press vehicle's SOS button.
TO BE REMOVED BY OWNER ONLYReading the webpage on [total lack of] privacy on the toyota website, I don't feel comfortable driving a car like that ever again. Tesla is every bit as bad, and even worse, since they were the innovator for a lot of this stuff in the automotive industry.
To keep this on topic, I wonder if Doug DeMuro ever considers these kinds of factors when writing about cars. Some people want a computer with wheels. I don't. I just want a car with the simplicity of a 1964 Impala or VW bug.
Mark (06-02-2021)
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View my fuel log 2020 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 42.4 mpg (US) ... 18.0 km/L ... 5.5 L/100 km ... 50.9 mpg (Imp)
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View my fuel log 2015 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 49.6 mpg (US) ... 21.1 km/L ... 4.7 L/100 km ... 59.5 mpg (Imp)
I think Doug Demuro's channel is the automotive equivalent of a YouTube channel where a woman shops for purses.
He doesn't know much about cars...he just knows what purses he likes and dislikes.
(Valley girl accent) "And the Mirage has this plastic thingy under the seat? Liiike, OMG, what's even up with that?"
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