I have never owned or operated a car and this doesn’t really make me want to.
IOTs are pushing us towards subscription hell-scape. We must demand dumb, non-connected machines and devices.
Never EVER would I buy a car from any manufacturer that does this.
We said that when the Oblivion horse armor released. And look where we are now.
At some point basically everyone will do it and marketing will fo the rest.
Oblivion doesn’t cost $50k+ to buy. If these greedy fuckers think they can RENT me parts of a car I already own, they can go fuck themselves.
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You might not have a choice if they all decide to do it. Companies are actually kinda good at that kind of collective actions sometimes.
When this becomes the norm. I look to the jailbreak community for hope.
I WILL download a car!
Why they just can’t go to a car mechanic and like change that?
We have this issue in my industry. You have to have the (as we say) the golden code to unlock features of a device you already own. The DLC of bullshit.
A lot of cars already have access ports made by third parties to flash ECU tunes on.
If cars like this become the norm, I’m sure we’ll see a lot more of these to bypass paywalls on your own cars
