- yetAnotherUser ( @yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca ) 15•8 months ago
I love the amount of watermarks this image has
- 🏳️⚧️MiaCD🏳️⚧️ ( @TheCoolerMia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 12•8 months ago
Jokes aside what’s that thingy? And what would happen if you cut it? I know 0 about cars X3
- krippix ( @krippix@feddit.de ) English25•8 months ago
It‘s the government tracking antenna duh
- onion ( @onion@feddit.de ) 22•8 months ago
1 Valve for adding air to the tire 2 the tire would deflate
- 🏳️⚧️MiaCD🏳️⚧️ ( @TheCoolerMia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 7•8 months ago
Ohhh yeah that makes sense ty X3
- BurningRiver ( @BurningRiver@beehaw.org ) 11•8 months ago
On newer cars, there is actually a chip in there (the valve stem, where you put air in your tire) for the tire pressure monitoring system. It tells you what pressure each tire is at on the dashboard.
- 🏳️⚧️MiaCD🏳️⚧️ ( @TheCoolerMia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 6•8 months ago
Oh yeah! I’ve seen that monitoring thingy in some cars like the ones that have a screen and stuff, I did wonder how it knew the pressure of the tires X3 ty for tye info! :>
- Vardøgor ( @vardogor@mander.xyz ) 5•8 months ago
i would go check the air in your tires rn if you didn’t know what that was
- 🏳️⚧️MiaCD🏳️⚧️ ( @TheCoolerMia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•8 months ago
I don’t have a car X3 and my parents haven’t either since years ago so I’ve never had to worry about tires :p
- thefartographer ( @thefartographer@lemm.ee ) 8•8 months ago
With prejudice
- tvbusy ( @tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•8 months ago
See the white, metal looking thing in the image? That’s another tracking device from the government to track people wherever they do. They even put it in all 4 of your wheels so they will know when to issue you a traffic ticket. Remove them. /s
- Footnote2669 ( @jaykay@lemmy.zip ) 4•8 months ago
Also the 5 silver hexagonal things, they easily unscrew fortunately, you should have a wrench in your car for them anyway. It’s a no brainer
- leds ( @leds@feddit.dk ) 5•8 months ago
Not so crazy as it looks
Because each tire transmits a unique identifier, vehicles may be easily tracked using existing sensors along the roadway.[19] This concern could be addressed by encrypting the radio communications from the sensors but such privacy provisions were not stipulated by the NHTSA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-pressure_monitoring_system
- Vespair ( @Vespair@lemm.ee ) 2•8 months ago
Holy shit they put four of these trackers on my car, one on each tire!