Will all this enable a hacker who hates your FB posts, to hold you hostage at 90mph unless you pay them a few cryptos?
I’d not be buying a car from anybody who did this scheme.
Where there is a market, there are ‘service providers’ - grey-hat hackers.
I have a 2018 Toyota Avalon. It did NOT come with remote connect, which would have been a deal breaker. I dislike these key fobs as they are, because they can cost $200 and is one more mechanical element making cars more electronic and less mechanical, which I am not crazy about. (Except electronic fuel injection. I like that one.)
I don’t need much of the extras that car has.
I have a portable speaker, if they tried to make me pay a monthly fee for a radio
The further the Internet of Things roots deeper into our everyday lives, the deeper I dig in my heels and try to backpedal to an analog world again.
Ping.
I just refurbished my old 2003 Nisan Sentra. No gimmicks and chips and computers and few sensor. I’ll drive it until I die. No reason to change.
They are going to push people toward forever buying used cars.
I know thars my strategy from now on. Ford went full vaxhole on its workers mandating the jab, and that was the last of many things for me.
I swear my cars would break down as soon as my last payment cleared.
I’ll happily pay to NOT have my airbags active. Seat belt, fine, I definitely want them. But I’m just not too hot having explosives right in front of me.
A few years ago, they tried to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (which protects things like photos on the internet) to prevent you or your car-handy friend (or even local mechanics) from being able to repair your car.
Didn’t GM start this with their *OnStar option?
Oy vey!
I have a 2016 Honda with enough electronics AND not too much electronics to keep me happy. No push button start, which I like. The electronics are still on the ignition key. Has an analog tachometer and speedometer. You use a dial to tune in radio stations. A CD player I rarely use/ plus I can insert a flash drive with tunes on it.
Right after 2016 they got rid of CD players and went over to flash drives.
Controlled and managed serfs.
Enough people want all the bells and whistles and cool gadgets on a car, and the rest of us have to pay for that crap because it becomes standard equipment.
I occasionally drive places without internet signals. Wouldn’t it be fun to get locked out of your car?
My current company car is a 2018 F150. It apparently has a lot of apps I can use. 110,000 miles later, I still haven’t gotten around to researching them.
I can’t believe that it would be legal for a company to disable airbags for lack of a fee payment since airbags are a federally required feature.
If they tried this and people got killed or badly injured when the airbags didn’t work, the lawsuits would be interesting.
Be sure to read the article about what the EU wanted to do the first time around.
And hey, UK, how's about that Brexit, eh?
Be a cheapskate.
Buy a base trim.
That solves/prevents a lot of issues.