Do 3rd gen tacomas have black boxes that collect data?

I’m sure they can but what I was trying to say is that you don’t talk to the gps constellation, you just receive the information they broadcast. I honestly have no idea if our trucks have a transponder that actually broadcasts data like onstar or if they just use our phones via the entune app

 

EMP will take out the Tacomas lol.

 

Put a tinfoil hat over the shark fin.

 

And take a picture. So that we can use this picture every other day.

 

Still better than Volvo, and their vehicles that will only go up to a certain speed.

Auto manufactures have forgotten that the concept of freedom, is what has been selling their vehicles for the past century.

 

You guys are worrying about your truck reporting data on your activities while you go everywhere with a smartphone in your pocket...

 

No we covered that already.

 

If I was Toyota I’d be recording data too if everyone decided to sue me claiming their car just accelerated out of control and the brakes mysteriously wouldn’t work at the same time...

 

WalMart just renovated one of their stores & put 50 million cameras on the roof "to make sure the produce doesn't spoil"

Right..

 

Chuck Norris ain't scared, so I ain't scared!

 

Don’t tell the overland preppers. They’ll be all ready to bug out stuck in their driveways.

OP, it’s just wires, get the EWD for your truck and you can disable it in case you wanna use your truck for some illicit activities

 

That reminds me of a quote from Major Frank Burns in MASH:

"I'm only paranoid because everyone's out to get me"

 

Shhhhh

 

What I wonder is if I have a built in dash cam with my 2018 lane assist/crash avoidance camera? Is the video of the lane assist camera on a recording loop?

 

This is not accurate. They can and do transmit data through the entune headunit to cell phone connection. Now how much / or what, I have no idea, but it is possible if you have the entune app on your smart phone, and they do transmit (as I’ve monitored it), I just never looked at what, it could be simply getting data for the entune apps, or it could be transmitting anything they like.

I’m somewhat in a side industry to the automotive data collection, and from what the manufactures are admitting to, Toyota is leading the amount of data collected. But this could simply be a because they have more cars out their. They could be collecting a huge amount of generic boring data from millions of cars rather than a small manufacturer who is collecting a lot of what we would consider truly private data from their cars. Tesla comes to mind on the latter.

 

They have computer programs that can collect, sort and ID you in a matter of minutes!

 

THANKS OBAMA

 

Toyota is planning data centers to store petabytes of data about their vehicles, around 10-15 years worth per vechicle. (Fact, I worked for a data storage fabric company that was trying to do R&D for the project.)

The third gen definitely communicates wirelessly and is ratting you out. (Speculation, but the only realistic way you can read the line in the owner's manual)

 

My point was there is no transmittal device in the vehicle except your phone. You have full control of your phone. The data that is transmitting through your phone when connected to entune is app data that you have decided to use.