The best part is, many won't care (when they should). But these days, it is okay to get scammed isn't it?
BMW tried selling a subscription on heated seats, but that failed. [0], So lets see how long this will last.
Keep your anti-EV hatred in check for a second and note that nothing in here is EV only. They could just as well do this with a gasoline car, that engine is also electronically controlled.
The door handles, infotainment, tire pressure gauges, gas cap, etc. all could have a digital locks on them to bless them with DMCA protection.
If everything is done in software for the EV you have to write that software anyway. Might as well write it to pull more money from your customer.
This will require legislative changes to stop, right to repair laws (looking at you John Deere) are a good first step.
Regrettably, despite of all the brouhaha with the heated seats, all this b/s never really went away.
(commented with the utmost sarcasm)
0- https://www.thedrive.com/news/bmw-is-giving-up-on-heated-sea...
Please explain. What would make it almost unusable?
This is generally valid for current societies, not just specifically.
Conformism has infiltrated economics, so now the supply-demand mechanism is broken: the demand agents are not "informed and rational", as classical theory wanted, so the supply is degraded - spawning "shrinkflation" and "viliflation".
Minding one's own business is an underrated virtue.