Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022

Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022 by Rebelgecko on Friday September 17, 2021 @08:15PM (#28572319)

I'm thinking more along the lines of how car companies can recapture the money that the second owner is saving by buying a used vehicle.

For example instead of selling a car, selling a license to use the car to the first owner and then deactivating features or throttling performance if/when they resell the car.

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Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022 by grepfru_it on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:27PM (#28573381)

GM currently tracks 100+ variables of your car over the life of usage (thanks on star!) and then calculates a resale price and offers to buy it back or gives you a certain deal when trading in.

Ford does something similar but is easily defeated by changing the stereo. The APIM tracks your driving habits locations and ecu vars which is captured and uploaded to Ford when you take the car in for service (don’t know how this works in their newer 2019+ cars since they are also connected 24/7 like GM)

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Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022 by xyzzyz on Friday September 17, 2021 @09:39PM (#28572794)

If the car is known to have no resale value, it will command lower price when new, so car companies can hardly do much here.

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Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022 by Lammy on Friday September 17, 2021 @09:26PM (#28572736)

"You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy"

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Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022 by not1ofU on Saturday September 18, 2021 @09:51AM (#28576259)

"...and you'll ignore all the warnings (like ^ this comment) until it's too late."

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