[catchnear4321]

I’m adjusting my tinfoil hat as I type this, but can you even buy a recent non-commercial passenger vehicle without some data connection in hardware? Shoot, some even have WiFi hotspots now.

And for those that don’t, there’s probably one or more cell phones in the cab. Probably some open airdrops even. So many e-flys down.

The mandatory subscription doesn’t seem that shocking - that’s just a different flavor of hiding the total price. Wouldn’t be buying a car without that. (Should be.)

The hardware though, this mandatory subscription just puts it in bold. Plenty of makes and models have the (sort of) hardware by default, you can take or leave the subscription and associated benefits. Please take it of course, but that hardware connection is installed either way. In case you change your mind!

BMW is already trying to charge for warm butts. Gotta make that easy to toggle. Taking it to a shop for that “upgrade” is silly compared to OTA.

It’s all silly, and far worse.

[MomoXenosaga]

No because it's a mandatory safety feature.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall