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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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Features like this really do require a subscription model. This isn’t enabling remote start by pressing a key on your fob. This is sending a request to a server, which connects to a cell tower to broadcast signal saying “turn on this car”. That stuff ain’t free. Someone has to pay AT&T for the data connection.

Only because they unethically intentionally designed it that way, when they could've just as easily picked a different design that could've worked entirely locally. They are inventing excuses for rentiership.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They almost always do offer a key fob based remote start option in addition to their app based remote start.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Well, the manufacturer rarely does but the dealership often tries to sell them as an added revenue stream.

    They vary from OK to dreadful. But it's still an option vs this remote services system if you don't like it.

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