[sircastor]

A few years back I got a handful of letters about getting my Nissan LEAF's radio updated from 2g to 3g. They wanted to charge me $200 USD for it. I didn't bother and it's ended up resulting in very little change for me - Mostly features I didn't really use.

It's nice to know what just a few years later I'd be facing the same problem again.

[btgeekboy]

Hey, look at the upside - “unplugging” your car from the Internet may make it more secure.

[wlesieutre]

In the Leaf's case, anyone with your VIN (ie anyone who can walk up to you car and look through the windshield) could turn on your car's AC over the internet and run the battery down. Whoops.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/02/nissans-connected-car-a...

[rootsudo]

That is interesting, you can walk through all the VINs since it's not really private.

Sure, someone could walk up to your leaf and target you, but much easier to run through the entire string of VIN's, which, is 17 characters.

GET https://[redacted].com/orchestration_1111/gdc/BatteryStatusR...

That's so cool, but also, no more. :) wonder what else is out there...

[OldHand2018]

I've been told that on my Subaru, if I subscribe to the services that need it, they will do the upgrade for free. But if I don't subscribe, they won't do it at all. I'm fine with that, I am unreasonably against subscriptions, lol.

[jtbayly]

I’m unreasonably against both subscriptions and cars having modems.

[enos_feedler]

I suppose thats fine if your car isn’t doing any of the driving. Otherwise I might want my car talking to the outside world.