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Re:Chevrolet to offer unlimited data plan with cars by bonestamp2 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:18PM (#13778795)
The answer is Dealers. Their dealers would sue them if they lost all the revenue they get from updating customers vehicles. On the flipside, it would save the manufacturers a ton of money because they wouldn't be paying dealers to perform these updates when they're under warranty. This also explains why Tesla has to do OTA updates... no dealers.
Re:Chevrolet to offer unlimited data plan with cars by greglindahl on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:56PM (#13779110)
Most Tesla customers live nearish to a Tesla repair center. So it's not like Tesla is forced to do OTA, but it sure is convenient to have the frequent updates that OTA enables.