Voting with your wallet only works in the positive direction. As long as enough people buy it to justify the development, they'll do it. And considering it's an if/else statement that costs $1000, it only takes one idiot in the whole world to pay for it. To "vote" against this you'd have to find some way of costing them millions of dollars.
The idea is that they'll lose just that, millions of dollars in lost sales as people gravitate away from them and towards brands that don't do subscriptions.
Ideally yeah, problem is the profit margin on a $50,000 car is only like $3500. So adding $1000 or $2000 of 1's and 0's is a huge increase in profits because you don't have to build anything - it's all gravy. Automakers will likely slowly start aligning on this until everyone is doing it. They don't have to overtly conspire because they all see the same numbers.
Sorry, I am just blackpilled on this. The only way I can see this turning around is something like a massive cyber terrorism incident like remotely bricking thousands of vehicles.
Let's check if it's an EV... yeah, looks like it is. What a surprise. This is the future of the car industry if Trump had not come out against it. The retune could be as simple as moving a scrubber bar from 201 bhp to 228 bhp.
27 hp is absolutely not worth it in my opinion. You'd forget you bought it in a week but your 700 euros would be gone.
EVs already have a tendency to brick themselves when the mandatory software updates fail. So doing that if they detect unauthorised modifications isnt out of the question
It's not like the computers are all standardized and can be accessed through a $25 device. They have complete control and car guys won't find a way around it pretty easily.
Only the diagnostics are standardized. If you want to tune or perform coding you would have to reverse engineer the computers/bypass any applicable DRM(like certain infotainment features in VW cars like CarPlay have DRM checks to see if an volkswagen stealership activated it)
I wonder if there's communities that focus on breaking these and getting a "luxury" car for cheap. Just buy the best bang for the buck and then unlock all the features permanently.
''Everything is a subscription'' is cancer.
Never pay for this crap. Do not allow it to become successful.
Subscriptions allow the sellers to become lazy. VW should be kept in their toes.
Voting with your wallet only works in the positive direction. As long as enough people buy it to justify the development, they'll do it. And considering it's an if/else statement that costs $1000, it only takes one idiot in the whole world to pay for it. To "vote" against this you'd have to find some way of costing them millions of dollars.
The idea is that they'll lose just that, millions of dollars in lost sales as people gravitate away from them and towards brands that don't do subscriptions.
Ideally yeah, problem is the profit margin on a $50,000 car is only like $3500. So adding $1000 or $2000 of 1's and 0's is a huge increase in profits because you don't have to build anything - it's all gravy. Automakers will likely slowly start aligning on this until everyone is doing it. They don't have to overtly conspire because they all see the same numbers.
Sorry, I am just blackpilled on this. The only way I can see this turning around is something like a massive cyber terrorism incident like remotely bricking thousands of vehicles.
Rent seekers.
middlemen.
Let's check if it's an EV... yeah, looks like it is. What a surprise. This is the future of the car industry if Trump had not come out against it. The retune could be as simple as moving a scrubber bar from 201 bhp to 228 bhp.
27 hp is absolutely not worth it in my opinion. You'd forget you bought it in a week but your 700 euros would be gone.
On my city commute I'd never have a chance to use it anyway.
It's going to be interesting to see how they react when people start "rooting" their cars and monkey patching all their goofy subscription nonsense.
EVs already have a tendency to brick themselves when the mandatory software updates fail. So doing that if they detect unauthorised modifications isnt out of the question
"Limp Mode Activated. Return Vehicle to Dealer."
The manufacturers will just do what Nintendo does: brick the vehicle.
Can you activate only when you need to pass a car on a two lane road?
I think that's what variable cam timing does.
It's not like the computers are all standardized and can be accessed through a $25 device. They have complete control and car guys won't find a way around it pretty easily.
Only the diagnostics are standardized. If you want to tune or perform coding you would have to reverse engineer the computers/bypass any applicable DRM(like certain infotainment features in VW cars like CarPlay have DRM checks to see if an volkswagen stealership activated it)
man, i miss my 1998 citroen xsara. installed the sound-system myself, could repair everything with plenty of space to work in.
a nice old-ppls car, soft susppension, soft steering, nice power with only 90 ps.
would cost me 10x as used nowadays to get that lvl of comfort.
I wonder if there's communities that focus on breaking these and getting a "luxury" car for cheap. Just buy the best bang for the buck and then unlock all the features permanently.
what is it now? 40 000 for a golf with acceptalbe extras?
the suzukis for hunters have a waiting period of 2 years.
is there anything but dacias for ppl who only want a car to drive towards a mountain and go climbing?