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Motorists have shown uncertainty about the transformation of car makers into tech companies and dealers could be left to explain their franchised partners' 'surveillance capitalism', it has been claimed. More than 75% of respondents to a survey of in-market car buyers, conducted by Parkers, said they do not want any kind of monitoring device in their vehicle. But with OEMs currently working hard to source the semiconductor microchips that facilitate a new generation of connected cars, and with in-car e-commerce and customer data central to current and future profit streams, there is no scope for a u-turn. "The automotive industry is in the midst of a massive transformation, where automakers are no longer hardware makers but are evolving into tech companies, and it represents the largest change to the automotive sector since the invention of the combustion engine," said Mark Brown, the British Standards Institution's [BSI] global managing director of cybersecurity and information resilience. |