I wonder if this means that all of the Ford calls will be regularly sending analytics back to Google, like they do with smartphones.<p>Will someone need a Google account to use parts of their car? If their account is blocked by Google (as often happens with automation), will that stop parts of ones car from working?<p>I see potential for some very unhappy Ford owners in the future.
Uggh. Cars are going the same route as crappy smart tv spyware.<p>There still isn’t a “do not sell my personal information” button on my car’s head unit, even though I know the manufacturer is selling information to Facebook (and probably others).<p>Of course, Ford will probably make the argument that they’re not selling your personal information to Google, and Google will use their non-standard definition of “sell” to claim they don’t monetize the information the cars gather.