Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately, it was clear that everybody was going to follow suit after this:
Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately, it was clear that everybody was going to follow suit after this:
Corn@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The way the article frames it as “why pay for what you don’t need” is so bad.
Nah, you already paid for it, the part is physically in the motorcycle.
brax@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The real question should be: why are vehicle manufacturers inclusing features that they can’t afford to maintain after they have sold it to us? Maybe stop making everything internet-integrated. Nobody in their right mind should be forking over a subscription for something they just spent tens of thousands of dollars on.
Corn@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
That logic might work for GPS service, but the example in the article is a bike where the battery has limited discharge rate and capacity, whose limits are increased via software if you pay a subscription.