The real question should be: why are vehicle manufacturers inclusing features that they can’t afford to maintain after they have sold it to us? Maybe stop making everything internet-integrated. Nobody in their right mind should be forking over a subscription for something they just spent tens of thousands of dollars on.
That logic might work for GPS service, but the example in the article is a bike where the battery’s discharge rate and capacity are limited by software, and those limits can be increased via software if you pay a subscription.
The real question should be: why are vehicle manufacturers inclusing features that they can’t afford to maintain after they have sold it to us? Maybe stop making everything internet-integrated. Nobody in their right mind should be forking over a subscription for something they just spent tens of thousands of dollars on.
That logic might work for GPS service, but the example in the article is a bike where the battery’s discharge rate and capacity are limited by software, and those limits can be increased via software if you pay a subscription.