Depends on the country of sale and what the dealer does with it.

Some countries it has to be law be off by default.

I have the GT parked in my garage. The options to turn off the sign recognition and change the cruise control limiter are under vehicle settings in my sync menu.

Yeah, it’s a setting in the car infotainment system under connectivity.

You have like 4 options. One for each of the data types (so you can turn off cellular data but leave on GPS), and one to turn it all off. When it’s all off there is no data being sent to or from the car at all.

Love how lemmy just downvotes cause they don’t like that answer.

Also all these things he talks about you can just turn off lol.

Don’t want the car to send data? Turn it off…

Don’t want the speed limiter to be on? Turn it off…

Edit: lol why am I being downvoted? I’m right. Both are in car settings you can just turn off. Connectivity and speed limiter + traffic sign recognition.

You don’t need a very old car, just one that is old enough the cellular network doesn’t work any more.

Some vehicles were made for 3g, and can’t go to 4g for example.