Featured Buying a Used "Smart" Car may not be a Smart Idea

Here is another data security issue that can have real world consequences.

Why buying used cars could put your safety at risk

I wonder if this can affect users who buy a used Prime. What about cars that have been test driven before purchase? Somebody could test drive & tie the car to their phone. The subsequent purchaser would be none the wiser until the initial test driver took over the vehicle.

I guess this is something else for dealers to check before finalizing a new or used car purchase.

 

How so? I thought most.all of those phone apps use a vendor's Internet server to route the phone's requests to the car.

That raises the question as to how to define "original dealer". Some dealers will trade to get the car you want. Is the "original dealer" the one Toyota delivered the car to or the one who sold it?
My Tundra was sold by a dealer in Virginia but Toyota originally delivered it to a dealer in Tennessee.

You cannot usually check that without special software that only a few consumers would possess.

 

That is why I used the quotation marks. Too many English words have multiple meanings.

What does it mean to open a window? You could mean a physical window or some proprietary computer software. There is also a "window of opportunity" that can be opened. All are very different.

 

Sort of the opposite of this car. Does anybody remember these?


or this

 

Which one? LOL
A "smart" car, a used Prius Prime, a Smart car, an AMC Pacer, or an AMC Gremlin?

All have been mentioned in this thread so far..