Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash - eviltoast
Automakers are increasingly obsessed with turning everything into a subscription service in a bid to boost quarterly returns. We’ve noted how BMW has embraced making heated seats and other fea…
  • jalkasieni@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Maybe not outright outlaw, but they will be taxed out of existence. Effectively you will have the choice of paying 10k in pollution taxes or 5k for the functional brake pedal subscription, and this shit will become norm.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      That’s possible but right now they’re pretty serious about banning ICE cars in certain states by 2050 or so.