• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    We have subscription services in cars now.

    I’m betting it’ll happen either way.

    It’s a fucking stupid future.

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      4 months ago

      My car has 6 or 7 subscriptions I believe? I lost count.

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        4 months ago

        And this is one reason why I hate modern cars. But then again, there’s no alternative, and that sucks.

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            4 months ago

            Maybe for now, but there’s fewer and fewer around. In ten-twenty years time it will be hard to find a 90s car with reasonable mileage.

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          4 months ago

          I do too and that’s true. I had a 2009 Rav 4 that I knew was going to need a lot of repairs and figured the safety improvements between 2009 and 2023 would be worthwhile, so I went new and EV to save me $100/mo on gas.

          I also decided to not pay for any subscription since privacy sucks, app requires full location access even during background, and the only thing I really used it for was remote start / scheduled remote start (buggy since it didn’t do daylight savings), but there is a button on my keys for it.

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          4 months ago

          Looks like tesla offers a premium subscription for most things and a separate one for the fancy cruise control… So I assume you have an old model or your being a troll?

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      4 months ago

      Exactly–and someone had to make the unpopular decision to announce it and weather the first round of criticisms. They also will be the first to profit from said stupid idea when they roll it out and the dumbs line up to buy it for fomo reasons or whatever