Car Feature Subscriptions

It's not fully "your vehicle" if they control the software:https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM?t=57You can pay a recurring subscription fee to access features that they own.

Yep. Like software, car manufacturers want a car to be something you subscribe to rather than buy. Also lets them continue to receive income from secondhand sales or ownership changes.

It primarily feels bad because unlike a spotify subscription, people still expect to own the cars they buy for tens of thousands of dollars, and this very effectively demonstrates how people who own the software you use can change what your car does with the push of a remote.If I buy a traditional car that accidentally came with a premium feature, is the cardealer going to come to my house and rip the seat out?

I do not want my car reporting on meI do not need "over the air" updatesSell me the car. I will drive it away and make my own arrangements for maintenance.I want an asset, not a subscriptionOld man shouting at clouds?

Imagine a car manufacturer sold a car which was just a normal car. It didn't spy on you, it didn't rely on subscription for built in functionality, if you wanted something non-standard (say parking cameras or fancy paint color whatever) you paid for them upfront for a one off $x fee.Chances are nobody would care, but just buy what peer pressure tells them to buy.

Tesla aren't the only car company to dabble with a business model based on what the FSF calls antifeatures. [0] Mercedes and BMW have done similar things. [1][2][0] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/antifeatures[1] <a href="https://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1121248_mercedes-benz-to-unlock-optional-tech-for-a-price-after-cars-a

Microtransactions, subscriptions for damn near everything, in-app purchasing for every little addon, *aaS...I hate the modern tech world in a lot of ways. It is ridiculous.OEMs: "oooh.. EVs are just computers with Wheels. I bet we can do the same thing everyone else is doing!"I really, really hope there is so much backlash that they drop it. It should be illegal to purposefully gimp something like a car just to milk more money out of it.I can understand something that has t

My Model Y has a $2000 in-app purchase option to increase acceleration by something like 0.5s.It’s not a subscription, but the idea is the same.It doesn’t bother me one bit: I bought the car knowing full well that it wasn’t included, I don’t need it (the standard acceleration is already more than I ever had before), end of story.Car engines have been under the control of software for decades now, with different products differing by the program. The only difference here is that there’s

Probably because if you and me would write one and install it on our cars it would void all certifications and make the car not legal to drive. That doesn't mean that manufacturers could not band together and make a common OS for cars, or a company in that market could not sell its software to everybody (like MS or Google) but I believe that manufactures don't want to completely commoditize cars and go the way of gas brands or smartphones. A car is 4 wheels, steering and brakes to me,

It's easy to complain since they're the only manufacturer who opens up your car as an API