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So far there's subscriptions for cruise control, adaptive beams, various navigation options, apple/google integration and my favorite, dual-zone climate.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is what happens when cars are basically a necessity to live.

[–] Morefan@retrolemmy.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, you've got some other magical way of transporting goods across huge physical distances?

Horse and buggy ain't gonna cut it.

[–] nikscha@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Least stupid car brain

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Why would anyone sign up for that? Now you have your car payment AND the fucking subscription? Makes no damn sense. What happens when they inevitably shut down their cloud servers that keep your access to the features in the car turned on? You never own the thing.

[–] Dragster39@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, the moment you to have to break the law to own the stuff you bought. Audi A3 jailbreak

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

"Or you can just purchase any of those features permanently"

This fact, hidden somewhere in the middle, makes the entire article pointless.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Headline is enough for me to never consider purchasing an Audi.

Toyota is out. Mercedes is out. Audi is out. Who else?

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

If you read more than the headline, you'd know that you can simply purchase those options instead of subscribing, if you want.
Which makes the entire article pointless. But you'd need to read more than the headline to see that, which is too much to ask.

[–] WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

and so the enshittification continues...

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

That's not what that word...you know what, fuck it. I give up. Enshittification now just means "becoming worse" and I won't be able to stop that.