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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

These are things that need a subscription, though... These are remote features that require internet connectivity and application serving. Things that don't just come with a one-time fee. These are actual services being provided by Kia or Hyundai. This isn't the same as putting a hardware feature of your car behind an arbitrary pay wall.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

149 to send a ping to locate a car? For an API call to lock unlock? How many API calls are worth 149 per year? In which world?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then I should be able to self-host these softwares.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn't be able to communicate with the car at a distance though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do car manufacture communicate with these cars?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.