I wish it was satire.

A fool and his money are soon parted. From the same class of vehicles that tried to lock heated seats behind a monthly subscription.

You know what's nice? Those cars can F right off. I won't buy one new. And never will buy one used.

Always will be "budget" cars (Corolla, Civic, Versa, etc.) that won't screw around with this crap because the buyers can't afford to screw around with it.

TRY to paywall a heated seat in a Civic. I dare Honda. It won't be more than 10 minutes before someone has it badly wired up like an aftermarket subwoofer.

Never EVER would I buy a car from any manufacturer that does this.

Can you at least unlock it later with experience points or in-game currency?

Welcome to the world of digital subscriptions boys. It used to be a PC only thing... not any more.

It's time to root cars, it looks like.

Let's build open source cars.

We are getting closer to Mitch Hedberg’s vision of each car getting only 3 honks per month

Pay 2 win on a car.

Those new Mercs look fucking hideous too

Just don’t upgrade your firmware so you can jailbreak it later.

way above my paycheck, the paywall it is, the car also, but who cares... time to stop buying cars, and use the public transport and bikes... better for the environment anyway.

IOTs are pushing us towards subscription hell-scape. We must demand dumb, non-connected machines and devices.

Considering "faster engine" means different tune on the exact same engine nowadays: not much has changed.
Fuck morons who pay this so the corps will continue to do this. They wouldn't even consider it if people with more money than sense didn't pay for it. Everything is enshittified until we live in Idiocracy.

We’re getting closer to “you wouldn’t download a car” being outdated, if more cars start pushing most of their functionality from behind a paywall.

It’s not something I’m happy to see.

To what extent could companies wreck my freedom in cars even more? I have heard of heated seats being pay walled, despite the technology to heat the seat being installed in the factory... Computer controlled locking systems where if my key fob breaks I can't get into my car, or worse, the electronic control system fails and I'm up shit creek without a paddle.

As to education, how can I even learn to repair something like that? My ignorance makes me think soldering may be useful, but how can an individual have greater control on the freedom to repair and own their automobile. The generality of my question lays in my ignorance to the inner workings of most cars.

I have never owned or operated a car and this doesn't really make me want to.

@kaptaan_jack @memes Tesla is the new Apple in innovating/stupid ways to part money from people then to be adopted by wider industry

At this point, if they can get away charging their customer each time they open and close the door, they would.

Somebody will figure out how to get past it, even if the manufacturer protests. It's happened with Iphones, it's happened with John Deere tractors, it will happen here

Hello everyone. Cars suck, we need to mostly ditch cars.

The engine comes as preinstalled DLC

I guess this would open the way for some new manufacturers of “non-smart“ vehicles.

Isn't that literally that Tesla's been doing with their Ludicrous mode? I guess with them, it's a one-time fee.

!nottheonion@kbin.social

Why they just can't go to a car mechanic and like change that?

EU: Apple must have replaceable batteries, USB-C, and allow 3rd-party app stores. We are dead serious about consumer protection.

Also the EU: This is fine.

Mercedes Benz get in the game.

I would be fine with a slot for my debit card and a huge BOOST BUTTON that cost like a dime to use for 10 s3conds.

Thanks. Totally staying away from these shitty German cars.

This might be an unpopular opinion but I think this is basically ok. I mean more power = more drain on the battery and thus they need to make more money to offset the possible increase in Warranty cases. Also this would only really affect a tiny little subset of Buyers.