Tires that talk to your town about the state of roads are on the way
Pirelli's Cyber Tire can work for the greater good as well as the driver.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/11/tires-that-talk-to-your-town-about-the-state-of-roads-are-on-the-way/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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"ICE subpoenas Pirelli's spyware tire logs to add to its Ring camera footage, Flock vehicle spyware, and NSO Group dissident monitoring."
@arstechnica the roads must roll!
@arstechnica The city and state can equip all of their vehicles with this tech.
We don't need or want more surveillance in consumer vehicles though. There's already too much data collection and zero meaningful consumer protection.
The very next step they do with this is monetize the data and sell it to a broker who will sell it to anybody who wants it for any purposes legal or otherwise.
@arstechnica hell no cyber tire 🫠
@arstechnica Oh, there's nothing about this that can be abused.
@arstechnica Oh joy, another way we can have our location tracked
@arstechnica Firstly, from a consumer point of view, fuck all of this. Secondly, where are these unnoticed bad roads? I think you could see the potholes in the Detroit area from space.
@arstechnica Sounds like more of the surveillance economy. Would you really trust them with this data?
