@HansMahncke A few weeks ago, I was staying at an airport hotel in Nashville. I went to sleep with the rental car parked outside and woke up to an email from the rental company telling me that I had returned it. Except I hadn’t.
The day last spring when my rental car was remotely disabled by the company while I was driving from LA to Las Vegas — an "error"– was the day I realized I wasn't actually driving at all. I was merely riding.
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) August 13, 2026
Music Row can do that to you, but it’s always a good time.
Find me a truck with 3-on-the-tree … and I’ll be just fine.
“And the car itself, which was just a totally ordinary GMC, had obviously transmitted all this information about itself, without me knowing anything about it.”
Going through life oblivious to OnStar must be a pretty good trick. Everything on the CanBUS is available with the correct hardware or addon