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Hm. Well I certainly agree that privacy invasive stuff is absolutely unwelcome but I'm also a pretty big fan of backup cameras. I bought a 2023 and while it does have the "infotainment" and backup can, outside of that it's all quite dum and everything outside of like bluetooth paring and general infotainment stuff is all physical buttons.
So really my point is while it is unusual, even brand new vehicles can manage to avoid the privacy nightmare.
Oh yeah, I like backup cameras too and they're probably saving a lot of people from injury or death. Very much worth requiring, IMO.
It's just the fact that many of these companies saw the opportunity to monetize the hardware that regulations were forcing them to install so we started seeing a lot more "data harvesting".
If you were going to pick a year to avoid, 2018 makes logical sense from that perspective.