Car companies will charge you monthly fees for add-on features like heated seats

Re:Car companies will charge you monthly fees for add-on fea... by aurizon on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:21PM (#30227884)

I have these mosquitos, 6 of them. Every month they suck some blood and go to head office and lay some (golden eggs).....GRRR The car with an OS can block you from adding third party items, such as remote starters that at one time you bought once and could buy from others as well. How about variable windshield wiper subscriptions for those who are not happy with the basic single speed? Tesla showed the way on this, it is a little normalised already IMHO. I wonder if a move to more basic cars will emerge as version@five wants?.

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Re:Car companies will charge you monthly fees for add-on fea... by earleybird on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:33PM (#30227964)

With a Tesla, you don't own your car, you license it.

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Re:Car companies will charge you monthly fees for add-on fea... by elmerfud on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:42PM (#30228025)

You own the car, as in you physical have title to a hunk of plastic and metal. It's their whim if it will continue to function as an automobile on a day to day basis.

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Re:Car companies will charge you monthly fees for add-on fea... by halfmatthalfcat on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:14PM (#30228600)

This is a bit hyperbolic, isn’t it?

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Re:Car companies will charge you monthly fees for add-on fea... by elmerfud on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:22PM (#30228653)

Yes, but only by a very tiny bit. You only have spend a short time on Google to find the stories of Tesla deactivating vehicles remotely, and then refusing to reactivate them without paying an extortion fee.

Try getting your Tesla repaired anywhere but Tesla. People have been up in arms about right to repair laws for their Apple products. Right to repair and the right to modify your own products and not void the warranty or a matter of settled law. People don't seem to be paying attention to this around Tesla for whatever reason. The Magnuson Moss warranty act was specifically around cars.

So yes indeed when you own a Tesla your ability to use it as an automobile is subject to their whims at least in their current mode of operation that's how it is.

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Re:Car companies will charge you monthly fees for add-on fea... by ClumsyPilot on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:02PM (#30229285)

We will own nothing and have no property rights withing 10 years and be a glorified serfs, the way things are headed. How is that for hyperbolic?

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