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[–] 4am@lemmy.world 182 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Heated seats you have to pay to unlock (but regardless have to pay to haul around) is the most late stage capitalist brainworm bullshit.

It should be illegal, and/or it should NOT be illegal to hack around the paywall if you purchase the car.

[–] El_Gryphon@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You wouldn't download a car

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Send me a link and watch what happens!

And yes I know you are joking too :)

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

It's fucking wasteful. A sign of absolutely deranged capitalism.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

most late stage capitalist

I mean, whatever you call it, opposition to this particular phenomenon would unite the militia and sovereign citizen kinds of people in USA (of what I've heard about) and ancoms and ansyns and ancaps everywhere and "citizens of the USSR" in the ex-USSR and reichsbuergers in Germany and I can go on.

Selling the same thing which differs in price and whether the same functionality is locked is something universally dishonest for everybody who is not in love with the organization doing this.

[–] Sketchpad01@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it not be illegal to hack it? Since you own the hardware?

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

You can hack the hardware but you can't hack the software if they tried to stop you.

The dmca is a disaster.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you own a computer it doesn't mean you have full control over the software on it. It's not legal to download a trial version of Microsoft office then hack it to remove the trial timer and turn it into the full product that costs money.

[–] kewjo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

imo its a bit different as they are using physical resources and then artificially limiting access. a better comparison would be getting a motherboard and having to pay extra to use some of the usb ports.

I think eventually there should be laws against wasting physical resources for monetary gain. if they want two models, make it such that they either don't meet manufacturing requirements and are hard disabled (similar to cpu yield) or produce one with and one without.

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[–] verysoft@kbin.social 83 points 1 year ago (2 children)

EU needs to start targeting this DLC for cars bullshit.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I will never buy a car that pulls this kind of crap. Ever.

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[–] Bigmouse@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck on that. The EU has an incredibly powerful Automobile lobby. Many companies, particularly in germany, are eyeing "DLC cars" hungrily.

[–] induna_crewneck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't BMW also do the heated seats DLC?

[–] ShadowZone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. And adaptive cruise control is something you have to pay 900 Euro extra via the in car shop on some models. Models you already paid 50k Euro and more for.

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The feature isn't worth $15,000. They charge you that much to send a small, very specific sequence of bits to your car. That's what you're paying for because the feature's already built in.

[–] realbaconator@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Yeah anyone who’s familiar with the “software upgrade” know’s it’s just overpaying to be a beta tester for their self-driving. What’s more; people who don’t buy it still get auto-steer (lane maintain, car pacing & cruise control) which is what most would use self-driving for anyways. Aside from that, if it runs on code there will always be a way to beat it. People have been ripping .DLL files for enterprise software for decades that cost as much or more than this overpriced “feature.”

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I feel a bit conflicted on this. On the one hand, charging for heated seats that are already there and which is a purely hardware feature is bullshit.

Other things like Full Self Driving aren’t as black and white. Sure, the sensors are there but those are relatively cheap. A massive part of FSD is the software, and developing this kind of software is extremely expensive.

Should everyone get a copy of Windows and Office for free because it’s ‘just some bits’ and the hardware is already there?

[–] Neato@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Calling it Full Self Driving is fraud, anyways.

I don't think licenses and/or subscriptions should be allowable on cars. Selling the car means it might not transfer and there's little way to ensure it has the software you need.

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[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It should be illegal to sell someone something they do not own. In your windows/office example, I'd say it should be illegal to crack/copy the software, but it should also be illegal to sell the software without an offline method of permanent and irrevocable activation (think offline cd keys), and it should be illegal for a company to put any barriers in front of use (vm, laptop, server, cpu cores, memory limits, etc) and illegal to put any barriers in front of resale. Selling a windows update, or a subscription model to updates seems completely reasonable (and probably should do online blacklists for shared keys) but the fundamentals of ownership shouldn't be eroded in law.

In the tesla example, your car should be your car. If you can modify the software to give you more features that's your car. If tesla wants to sell a subscription to incremental upgrades on their self-driving algorithms that's fine, but they should be liable for any faults in older revisions if they paywall updates. That incentivizes them to do the software equivalent of a recall when something is egregiously or dangerously broken, and also incentivizes innovation because they can't sell you an update if it doesn't contain anything valuable.

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[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (14 children)

The windows analogy is almost there.

It's more like, you pay for windows home edition, which would take up 24gb in your 128gb hard drive. But nope, it's actually taking up 89gb. Why? Because it has all the features of Windows Ultimate edition, all locked away, taking up precious space in a hard drive that you've paid for.

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[–] Thurgo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

The pricing and resale structure for "full self driving" is insane and anti-consumer so I lean towards enabling the software with a jailbreak not being a horrible thing. I certainly would have no issue with this being done on a used car that had the paid "full self driving" software removed by the mothership.

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[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you buy the hardware you should be able to turn it on. Jail breaking is fully moral in that situation.

The self driving is software that uses the hardware so should be paid for IMO. You should also be able to use your own software that’s open source on the hardware you own

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Running your own software to control the automotive part of a car is probably not legal, since I assume the process of making a car street legal should requires an audit of said system.

Hmm, well, I hope it is the case, anyway.

[–] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any software that passes whatever local safety standard should be installable (or software that doesn't pass if the car is not being used on public roads).

Otherwise the car is not being sold, it's being rented, and all the advertising that says anything about buying is fraud.

[–] induna_crewneck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good luck getting a homebrew OS for tesla cars to pass those tests. I don't even know how that would work. I'd be curious to know what would happen if you would try to register and get a car through the TÜV for example that runs on custom firmware.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The whole internet runs on a homebrew os.

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[–] Jilanico@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if your own self driving software causes an accident/death?

[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (12 children)

What if Teslas own self driving software causes an accident/death?

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[–] Noah@lemmy.federated.club 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's ridiculous how nowadays a lot of hardware car features are locked behind a simple software switch. Feels like both a massive waste of resources for people that don't buy the upgrades, and like having to pay for a feature that is already physically present in your car. Software-only upgrades like full self driving are understandable, hardware upgrades locked behind a software gate aren't.

[–] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@Noah @MicroWave

Cory Doctorow calls it autoenshittification and wrote about it here ... https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

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[–] starlinguk@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's cheaper to build identical cars than it is to add certain features to some and not to others.

[–] Neato@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's cheaper then they should include it. It's like being cheaper to make a more powerful engine then software limiting the car to only go to so many RPMs or speed. It's that John Deere bullshit all over again.

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[–] ArtificialLink@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Doesn't make it any less scummy. Its just an artificial inflation of price.

[–] there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That will hold true until the manufacturers realize that there will always be someone smart enough to break their software lock, and on a car, there’s always ample incentive to do so.

Literally begging for people to hack your shit

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you buy a Tesla you’re encouraging and supporting these practices.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until the other manufacturers implement it, then it'll be unavoidable.

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[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] foggy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The price of everything, the value of nothing.

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[–] alphacyberranger@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they downloaded a car from a car?

[–] Simplesyrup@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

"Music starts playing"

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Yes Hollywood. I absolutely fucking would download a car.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

... paying or subscribing to a service are becoming increasingly popular in the auto industry.

No paying or subscribing to a service (of which I would argue none of the thing paywalled in a car are a sevice) are becoming increasingly popular for auto makers. I don't know of anyone who is interested in paying for features forever.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

In before Elmo threatens with a lawsuit

[–] AstralWeekends@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Wow, surprised that I hadn't heard of THIS vulnerability that previously existed: https://electrek.co/2020/08/27/tesla-hack-control-over-entire-fleet/

Pretty wild stuff, and that was 6 years ago!

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