Rivianが「オフラインモード」を解禁！ネット接続を完全に遮断可能に

Rivianの車両で、インターネット接続を完全に無効化できる設定が追加されました。プライバシー重視の方や、接続不要な環境で利用したいユーザーにとって嬉しいアップデートです。

I remember yanking out the onstar unit in my 2015 silverado to physically disconnect the cell antenna. This was (is?) the only practical way to disable cellular in that vehicle.

Kudos to Rivian for making this a supported user privacy feature.

Reminds me of Zed's setting { "disable_ai": true } 1

Glad it's an option be it for regulatory compliance, security, privacy, or any combination of the three.

Disabling internet connectivity disables lane keeping assistance. I wonder if this is a dark pattern to punish users who opt out or because they feel they need reports of crashes ahead to do it safely.

limit or disable certain functionality in the vehicle: ... over-the-air updates, which provide new ... safety enhancements ...

I wonder what happens if you disable the e-SIM (in the US) and then a safety recall appears via software update - do dealers have any way to update control modules besides OTA?

This is a huge unresolved issue with EVs IMO; ICE cars are required to provide emissions-relevant updates over software which can operate using a J2534 passthrough device, which effectively means powertrain modules have to allow (potentially signed) updates over CAN using software that can be obtained by an end user (a lot of people don't know this; for almost any ICE car in the US, you can buy a 3-day or 1-week subscription to the dealership level diagnostic software for a somewhat reasonable fee and use it with a J2534 device).

But for EVs, there's no such rule and as far as I can tell it's entirely a gray area in the US now; the NHTSA require a "remedy" for recalls but nobody seems to have pushed back to determine whether OTA is truly a remedy. The traditional autos all offer dealerships as a backup option, but Tesla and Rivian have several recalls with only OTA remedies already. This seems sketchy.

Related: Mozilla did a review of different cars for privacy:

(https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/arti... (https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/))

Nissan earned its second-to-last spot for collecting some of the creepiest categories of data we have ever seen. [Their privacy policy] includes your “sexual activity.” Not to be out done, Kia also mentions they can collect information about your “sex life” in their privacy policy. Oh, and six car companies say they can collect your “genetic information” or “genetic characteristics.”

Amusingly, my Cupra Born has all its connectivity disabled... because Cupra Australia just didn't want to bring it to this country. Not a bad thing really, aside from the annoying red notification dot telling me I have no signal!

Show me where I can rip out the antennae/modem, otherwise you’re all talk.

Why cant users disable connectivity elsewhere other thsn canada? People are supposed to call their car dealer each time after car update before turning it off again? Seems to be a cheap pr stunt to portray canadian regulation in attempt to shed good light on rivian

In the UK, this URL simply redirects to the UK version of the homepage, sadly.

For anyone in the same situation, https://web.archive.org/web/20260430234304/https://rivian.co... (https://web.archive.org/web/20260430234304/https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle) leads to the correct page.

Are there any electric cars that don't need internet connectivity via wifi/esim at all? I'm looking for something really simple. A chassis, four wheels, an engine, airbags. Basically my current ICE car, just electric.