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Nissan Motor Co. said it has developed a new type of paint that significantly reduces the temperature inside vehicles parked in direct sunlight.

The surface of a car coated with the innovative material remains up to 12 degrees cooler than that of a vehicle with standard paint, tests showed.

The company said the coating material can help rein in the temperature rise not only on the car's body but also in the vehicle when exposed to direct sunlight.

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[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nissan also detects you having sex in the car and phones the info home.

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

My wife's going to be pissed when she gets that call...

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m curious where that’s from? News, or you made up from privacy policy?

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mozilla's analysis if the policies, see my other comment in the thread.

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Okay, I found one.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

But I guess it’s to clarify what kind of data could possibly be collected and not that they actively collect and use them. I guess Ford can do that too, although they don’t specify in their privacy policy.

They’re not interested in your sexual orientation.

[–] mihnt@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So fucking glad I got my car before they added all this shit.

It's going to prevent me from getting any EVs that come out that I can afford too. I'm not signing a fucking privacy policy for a car.

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, EVs are the worst kind of the privacy-invasive cars I agree

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

My car has an antenna for a network that no longer exists and I'm so happy about it

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

But, like, why is that listed then? Why would Kia and Nissan say they collect information on your "sex life" and "sexual activity" respectively of they're not? What's to gain from keeping the window open if you're using it?

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Their privacy policy includes a provision that they can use the cameras and GPS to infer things such as sexual orientation, so yeah.

[–] fern@lemmy.autism.place 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

While this fucked up, documenting sexual orientation is not exactly recording sex. Someone could simply use GPS and see that the only place in the area that's open is the gay bar and infer from that, or even lip reading.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think they have interior cameras (although other manufacturers do), but the front and backup camera feeds provide plenty of information as well.

Then there's also this, if you need any more reason to be concerned.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t think they have interior cameras

Can just stop there. Unless people are banging on the bonnet, not sure what the point is.

[–] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you read the linked article you will find that exterior cameras feeds are plenty invasive enough.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't disagree, but this is what was said:

Nissan also detects you having sex in the car

Unless there are cameras in the car then no.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

There are enough sensors in cars to detect a rythmic motion. It doesn't need cameras for that.