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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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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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.
Then I should be able to self-host these softwares.
You wouldn’t be able to communicate with the car at a distance though.
How do car manufacture communicate with these cars?
4g most likely
Then if the manufacture is just communicating with the car using standard internet, what is stopping self-hosted software communicating with the car?
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.
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.
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.
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?