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>Offering flexible upgrades

do you want to buy the headlights DLC ($0.9 first month, then $29.9)? Y/n

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Please press the brake or accelerator to confirm your subscription

Or just wait until ADAS front assist gets a false positive around a t junction and someone stops in your rear.

I mean … following too closely gets you liability for the collision and typically a citation.

With exceptions, brake checks can put the car in the front at fault.

Regardless, it doesn’t help when the car is damaged and there was no reason for aeb to kick in. The computer thought it was right but it wasn’t.

Sorry, your package only allows you to turn the volume up to 45%, would you like to upgrade?

I'd personally love if manufacturers actually offered upgrades on their older cars. I had an older Mercedes-Benz and I would've absolutely given Mercedes-Benz money if they had a first-party CarPlay solution for my then car.

You're effectively saying that you want more disabled features, just in case you want to upgrade your property at some point.

Not really. CarPlay didn't exist when the car was made. The car manufacturer had to add software integration even if the hardware was already competent. Parent comment is saying they'd pay to receive this added integration.

No, they're saying they would pay for new software. Many ~10 year old cars have all the hardware necessary to support things like CarPlay, but because CarPlay didn't exist yet they do not have it. A lot of people would probably happily pay $200 to add it to their car without having to shoehorn in a third party head unit.

I think it was more about offering features on cars manufactured prior the new feature was released...

Fun fact: Porsche offers this for some of its older generation models.

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_US/2023/products/porsche-cla...

Yeah, Porsche is the only manufacturer that I know of that actually cares about older cars they've sold.

They even made an amusing ad to that effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8-9oIq1hxw

Mazda upgraded 2017-2018 systems with carplay after sale. It cost some money at the dealership but it was a standard procedure they could do

Pop-up ads over your fuel gauge. Monetized!

Turn left over there and stop at gas station!*

*- Proudly brought to you by Shell.

DRM-Lock gasoline! , you can only use MB approved partners :), our nearest partner gas stations is just 5 hours away.

I can't wait when infotainment will start playing ads.

If you use Waze for navigation, it already does play ads when you are at a stop.

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