It should be forbidden by law.

Flip it to instead focus on them forcing limited lifespans for the cars by doing this and then dropping support.

The fact they can legally charge a subscription for a fitted feature that does not pose any continuous cost for the company is insane

It's called "Rent-Seeking Behavior" and it has infected essentially every single fucking millimeter of the market.

You'll own nothing and you'll fucking like it.

Rent-seeking.

Or the Tesla blows up because you sent a mean tweet.

Or Epson bricking your car cause it got 6 years old

Windshield wiper fluid low is so obtrusive. It warms you next to the odometer as a message pop-up instead of a light, other things have lights, why doesn't it? Know what's worse? It also pops up multiple times on the dashboard touch screen blocking you from seeing your navigation while driving. At least I know I'm low on wiper fluid!

Which way? I've seen advertising use wheel hp instead of crank which is what I assume to be the default.

Looks like customers have successfully voted with their wallets. Nice!

If you want to maintain the warranty, that's where you're going to be screwed. If you're buying used, who gives a fuck. Root the car and turn everything on. The car manufacturer cares about the first sale and that's it. They'll attempt to make it hard to root to prevent resales with more features enabled, but we're going to do it anyway. A lot of people are pessimistic about the future of cars (which is fare for new cars), but personally I don't care. Fuck the companies. There's a way to control all their devices whether they like it or not.

I hear it's pretty easy

Do not take my word for it. I'm not a mechanic. Fuck I don't even have custom firmware on my Prius

This feasible.

I understand your sentiment but cars today are safer, quicker, dont rust as much, and get better gas mileage.

The cost to maintain an older car won't be cheap and it is shit for the environment.

We just need to place government regulations on subscriptions. With recent wins pertaining to right to repair, hopefully they pick up speed and people start voting to make good changes.

If you purchase a product, you should own it. If it has a feature that is disabled by the company, they should have to lease that space on your product, thereby paying you for the storage. That would incentivize not making products like this.