A pirated car would just be a more free way to access the $10k/yr pay wall you live your life behind. Car-dominant infrastructure is vendor lock in.

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          Then if the manufacture is just communicating with the car using standard internet, what is stopping self-hosted software communicating with the car?

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            Yeah on second thought it likely has to be satellite or something.

            Otherwise roadside assistance would be shit haha

            What it boils down to is why would a company spend money so a small percentage of tech enthusiasts who buy their cars can use advanced features for free.

            We always forget we’re a tiny percentage of any market.

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              Otherwise roadside assistance would be shit haha

              If I have to guess, I think they are probably on different systems. As roadside assistance pre-dates smart cars, and satellite in general has pretty bad receptions under a roof.

              What it boils down to is why would a company spend money so a small percentage of tech enthusiasts who buy their cars can use advanced features for free.

              Because “laws”.

              Of course, there is no way to let corporate do good on its own. Corporates will never respects its user, the environment, and basic consumer rights; if they are left to operate on their own.

              If the EU can force apple to care a little bit about the environment and basic consumer rights, then they probably can let the car companies do the same.

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      An internal Ethernet connection to a replaceable cellular modem would be a solution to this as you could use whatever carrier you want to, or just replace the cellular modem with any other source of internet connectivity you choose.