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Re:Hyundai and Kia Develop Shape Memory Alloy Integrated Sno... by gruez on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:57AM (#38612952)
>and when I'm paying for tires to be changed for me I'm paying for the labor involved not the feature of having different tires.

Okay but practically speaking you're not changing your tires for fun. You're changing it specifically to improve winter driving performance. For all practical purposes changing your tires is the same as activating the feature on these smart tires, even if the former involves the tires being removed/added.

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Re:Hyundai and Kia Develop Shape Memory Alloy Integrated Sno... by Pathogen-David on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @12:55PM (#38615762)
That's really just fundamentally not how I mentally handle spending money.

I get that they're logically equivalent, but it goes against my world view to pay per activation on something like this. I have great disdain for the subscriptionication of everything.

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