@jcrabapple If I understand well, this car can't be tracked when it's stolen. You can't find it back at large parking areas unless you make a note on your phone before. If it's used in a crime, the police need to fire bullets at it to stop it. Your navigation will be outdated unless your phone updates it daily via a manual process. Etc.
There are benefits to having an internet connection to your vehicle.
It turns out that people managed to find their cars at the mall for several decades without phone assistance.
It also turns out that whether the police will fire bullets at your car depends more on the mood of the police officer than on whether any crimes have been committed by the occupants of the vehicle.
Are you sure you don't live under a bridge and threaten goats?
@dashdsrdash @jcrabapple There was a time, and in some countries still is, that people didn't have cars but only a simple black wagon behind one black horse.
You don't need to join the continuous improvement of the world, you can stay wherever in history as you like.
I prefer progression and innovations. If there are any drawbacks, I consider them as next thing to improve. Not to throw it all away.
Privacy can be achieved in another way if you want to.