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On 1/21/2026 10:53 AM, The True Melissa wrote:

Verily, in article <10kr627$2bd4a$1@dont-email.me>, did
suzeeq@imbris.com deliver unto us this message:

On 1/21/2026 10:15 AM, The True Melissa wrote:

Verily, in article <10kr21p$29fuq$1@dont-email.me>, did ahk@chinet.com
deliver unto us this message:

You've changed the topic
from banning remote start to running the vehicle while the driver is
present, removing ice.

Not always. Sometimes I go back inside for a few minutes. No point in
standing out there chipping at it when it'll be easier to remove in the
near future.

If the sun is out, I usually back out into it so that will help the ice
melt faster.

Yeah, definitely a good plan. I don't have a garage (apartment life), so
it's always out in whatever sun there is. Good call on not running the
engine in a closed garage, though. :)

I live in an apartment too and have a designated spot on the north side
of the garages/storage units. The sun's so low that I don't get any on
the car for about 3 months.
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On 1/20/26 10:36 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

This is why I still drive a 1998 4Runner with none of these internet-connected
"smart" features that allow a company or the government to disable (or charge)
me for basic features and functionality. I'm the only one who controls which buttons work in my car. Not Toyota and not Gavin Newsom.

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Germany just flipped the kill switch on Lexus cars-- disabling remote start in
the dead of winter. Because warming up your own vehicle before work? That's now "unnecessary pollution".

You know Remote Start is dangerous? Starting a car
indoors, or where you can't see the car, or someone
else or an internet hacker maliciously starts the
car against the car owner's wishes? Lawmakers
should have never allowed the cavalier car makers
to push this feature like they do, or allowed to have
such weak security to the car owner in their products.
Car makers have been downright hostile to their
customer's security.

Without warning, Germany ordered Lexus to remotely shut down the remote-start function on all combustion vehicles nationwide-- leaving over 100,000 drivers stranded in freezing temperatures.

Now that is an obvious power game played by the German
authorities, using "climate" as a pretense. When
governments or other authorities use such anti-consumer
tactics you know they aren't being serious about the
supposed issue of climate.


A Toyota rep confirmed the move, calling it

"compliance". But compliance with what? This is the new climate authoritarianism-- where your ability to heat your own car is revoked overnight with an app update

The World Economic Forum said it plainly: "You will own nothing and you will be happy about it." And now it's happening--renting features, renting heat, renting freedom. The pretext is the climate. The real goal is control. And electric vehicles? They're even easier to shut down.

Today it's your car. Tomorrow it's your fridge, your heat, your bank account. Make one "wrong" post or attend the "wrong" protest and Palantir's AI could decide you no longer deserve access to any or all of them.

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