And naturally of course you don't carry a cellphone with you while you drive...you know, that device with accelerometers, GPS and an LTE chip that you leave powered on all the time on your person?

I don’t. What’s your point

Of course I am free to carry it or not

You are also free not to use a mode of transportation. You can, for example, buy an old car, register it on a historical number plate, and you’re good. There is no retrofit requirement. If you want a new car, suck it up.

I'm always amused at people who deem future and freedom of choice incompatible and effectively stating that the end game of all progress is absolute slavery and obedience.

Other than having some vested interest in denying people's right to choose between positive and negative aspects of progress, or having a Stockholm syndrome towards those who have such interest, I got no plausible explanations to this psychological phenomenon

Omg what am I going to do. Yes yes. You know I’m selling trackers online and just lobbying on hacker news.

You seem to be wasting your precious “armchair psychologist skills” here on hn.

Ah yes, brilliant reasoning. "You carry one device that can be tracked as long as you're carrying it so what's the problem with having tracking baked into your vehicle?"

There are so many things in a modern car that track you. eCall is the smallest problem.

Indeed there are: https://medium.com/@doctoreww/day-2-your-car-is-trackable-by...

And “modern” is going back over a decade. So most cars on the road.