Traditional have cars and they are trying to shove computers into them.
The traditional model of upgrading infotainment software has been "lol, buy a new car" for a good quarter of a century now. But now Tesla is changing the expectations with Joe mode and Dog mode starting as someone requesting stuff from Elon and the feature appearing OTA in a matter of weeks.
Dog Mode, is still a rarity in EVs for some reason. It's a dead simple feature: "allow the heating/ac to work while car is locked, optionally display internal temperature on infotainment display so that people don't break the windows to 'rescue' the dogs".
The few that have it (Polestar and Mercedes I think) limit the usage to max 30 minutes.
Trouble starts when the computer is networked and therefore vulnerable to more attacks. And for networked computers, security updates are table stakes. Feature updates are merely nice.
To compare apples to apples, you need to compare Tesla to another brand of networked cars.
Toyota lives in the 90's from a cyber technology perspective. It is so bad that I wonder how the engineers who work there can say to themselves "I did something great".
I do not know other cars but I guess this is similar.
I think that's preferable. That Teslas are "computers with a car built around them" that phone home to the mothership and get automatic updates is the main reason why I will never buy a Tesla.
Huh? So what happens after 30 minutes? The car heats up and the dog cooks?!
There are no technical reasons not to have the ac/heating run longer, they just decided to cap it to an arbitrary 30 minutes.
(I generally think the "all out-of-date devices must be burned" mantra is a tad overblown, but they are at least somewhat dangerous in a way that non-networked computers are not.)