Louis Rossmann made a video on it, and something that came to mind while I was watching it was that while regulation can in fact be abused, I think some regulation has to be in place because a company that can charge whatever it wants for a car doing this just for the sake of control is awful. Do we really own the things we buy, or do the corporations?
I know in the EU, they have a lot more laws/regulations about warranties and other R2R shit, I just want to be able to fix the shit I own by myself without the company hindering me from doing so because they want to treat me like a leasee while charging me purchase prices.
Edit: Starting in South Korea, but very concerned that it could be brought here considering horse armor started the gaming industry’s bullshit.
This is why I keep my “dumb” car, which predates any of this shit (1998, baybay!).
It’s fucking great, and I will likely drive it until a) it dies, or b) someone offers me money that I can’t refuse for it (it’s a rare one), lol…
But fuck, it is so much better to drive than any of the computerized plastic shitboxes from the last decade or so, including the model of the same car, from just over a decade later…
It’s bizarre to drive both, and see the difference. And then to drive an even more recent car, where the “tech” is even more intrusive, and cannot truly be turned off… Hell, it’s actually galling, frankly.