In the end, the KIA car company made its cars into subscription models, I really hate this because in the end the car we buy with our own money doesn’t feel like it belongs to us. Should we finally buy an old school car ? so as not to be affected by this subscription models or is there a way to crack the software installed in it ?

  • richmondez@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    By removing the feature from the remote and moving it to an app they turn a cost of a more complex remote into a profit of constant subscription money.

    • pm_me_your_quackers@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      In the winter I’d remote start my car from the top floor and even I got to the bottom my car would be heated; their remote start uses server time.

      Now if they charged me to use the remote start from my keys, that’d be a different story.