The simple answer is "REFUSE TO BUY THE SHIT!"

It is literally that simple. I can't think of a single person that HAS to buy a NEW car. Keep what you have or buy used. Tell the dealerships and auto makers to fuck off! Explain why a person ever has to buy a NEW car.

As long as people are stupid and buy it the auto makers WILL continue on this path.

"Corp execs literally don't care about your bitching, and will perfectly coordinate with other companies corp execs to make sure the same blanket policy is pushed and agreed upon by everyone else in the industry, thus making it the new standard and leaving the customer with no choice against it, for the 69 millionth time"

What is really happening is your car has hardware features that are being disabled, and you have to pay extortion money for the criminals to not disable them. It's ransomware as a service.

So the question is, who wants to buy from a company that is running ransomware as a service?

*You wouldn't download heated seats would you? *

I definitely would.

We need Autoworker Unions to refuse this shit with us.

Note to self: Buy older cars without the subscription bullshit.

So it lowers the cost of the car right? Right?

"Officer, I signaled to switch lanes but I forgot to update my card on file so the blinkers won't turn on. I was on my way to get a prepaid card for the blinkers and to open the trunk so I can get my groceries out."

Car toys is just gonna take in the bucks. These car manufacturers are thinking they can charge a subscription fee when car toys will plug in a little doohickey they just makes your heated seats work.

"Oh no, we can't compete with Chinese manufacturers! Surely if we squeeze the customers just a little bit harder..."

The only backlash they listen to is the one to their wallets. Remember Netflix password crackdown backlash?

As much as I hate what it will do to the used car market we as a people need to stop buying these new cars. Like actually make it a shameful act to even be in one of these distopian devices. People love to bully and be outraged, why not point it to something like this that can be agreed on and is not hard to fix?

Climate conference or whatever, has nothing to say about car makers actively hindering adoption of modern engines/EV?

And this shit is why I’ll never own a Tesla — or any other make that pulls this stunt.

Just remember to not pay for the subscription and they will eventually stop this particular nonsense.

Again, I mean good luck with that I suppose. They do this and it will just accelerate the market to jailbreak cars.

Enough with the subscriptions!

And this is why capitalist markets don't really regulate themselves and need government intervention.

If this becomes common enough there's gonna be a whole cottage industry of jailbreaking cars.