Leo Hohmann – leohohmann.substacl.com Aug 19, 2024
General Motors is laying off more than 1,000 salaried tech employees in its software and services division in an effort to streamline the unit’s operations.
The layoffs include roughly 600 jobs at GM’s tech campus in Warren, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, CNBC is reporting.
The cuts come as automakers attempt to reduce costs during an industry downturn and as they’re spending billions of dollars on super-expensive all-electric vehicles and so-called software-defined vehicles. These include self-driving autonomous vehicles that are continuously gathering up and sending all your personal data to a central computer, then they sell it off to third parties. These cars will also include remote kill switches.
In other words, the auto industry is pouring all of its R&D money into vehicles that nobody in their right mind would want to own.
In fact, GM is being sued for illegally selling more than 1.8 million drivers’ personal driving data to insurance companies.
Only a digital slave to Klaus Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution would want a car that spies on them, reports their driving habits to the insurance companies, and offers the government the opportunity to shut their car down.
It would be nice to see some new automobile manufacturers spring up to fill the niche of consumers who would like to remain free. Free of tracking, free of those nagging beeping reminders to put your seatbelt on, free of cameras checking your every move, and with no online connection to the socialist nanny state. The time for such a car company has arrived. Will anyone answer the bell? I hope so.
What about you? Would you buy a car that’s made in America, specifically for freedom-loving Americans, who want nothing more than to be left alone, free of the entangling web of Big Brother surveillance?
I wouldn’t buy anything “Made in USA”. Every time I tried US products, they were junk. When inquiring about it I was told they have to make the junk to compete with imports.
The legendary German automobile industry is destroyed too thanks to their allies blowing that pipe line, now they loose money on producing cars ..
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FOREIGN
ILLEGALE GOLDSTÜCKE SPECIALISTS !
Most people have no idea that newer vehicles are spy devices and YOUR data sold
May be a good idea to have a protest in front of dealers….I’ll bet that even loonie left will be outraged and join in..or perhaps buy older vehicles that DO NOT have these features
My 2017 Honda now must have ‘emissions testing’ to renew its registration. I can’t wait for its computer chipped features to become obsolete!
These two brief videos shows just how dangerous lithium batteries are. Twenty years ago they’d have considered them so dangerous I think they would have banned them.
https://old.bitchute.com/video/J1cgiF4IIjqj/ (1m 9s) A man burns up in a lift after taking off his e-scooter battery to recharge it and it explodes like an incendiary. He had no chance in that confined space.
https://old.bitchute.com/video/twBOF5hXFNSp/ (34s) A lithium battery bursts into flames after a dog chews on the lead.
“Automakers once again in meltdown mode; poised for another government-funded bailout because they followed government mandates” … No, no, no, let’s be very clear about this; there are no “government-funded bailouts”, it is the working people stuck with the bill. Again. Not with their consent. Again.
Revolution Now. I’d rather have chaos at this point than this continuing raping and robbing by the federal cartel.
Clarkson always made fun of America–“the dashboard is made of the same kind of plastic they make newsreaders out of”
Ken, there is one thing I would buy from old USA and that is Corning Ware found in my local opp shops rarely.
Cars today aren’t classics by design. Although I was a massive fan of GM in the day we in Australia produced better under GMH which was kind of British as well. Then they sold it off to f,in Germany.
Efficiency in vehicles was reaching a peak you could go hundreds of kilometres on a few buckets of juice up hills carrying weight. One of man’s greatest achievements. And some suit decided his wallet was more important. End of story.
What is the average speed of a car, if you factor in all the time spent contributing to its creation? I bet it is 4mph. It will definitely be less than bicycle speed