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verisimi • today at 6:48 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

> will soon

You realise that in the EU cars have a SIM in, and an emergency button? This is since 2018, see: 112 eCall regulation.


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avodonosov • today at 7:21 AM

I do realise. That by itself is worrysome. But now car manufacturers tie legallly required functions like the enmergency buttons with bloated platforms of "convenience" functions that users can not disable completely.

numpad0 • today at 7:38 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I've read somewhere that it can be a SIM-less phone that abuses emergency call flow in 3GPP. GSM specs have special accomodations for 911/112 type calls that don't require a SIM(that sometimes ironically lead to normal calls working fine and just emergency calls failing).

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