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Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn't mercedes doing subscription heated seats etc?

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] phx@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they gave up on it, at least for now, because not unexpectedly it was a terrible fucking idea

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That was BMW. Mercedes was even worse: they locked full acceleration behind a subscription

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

BMW already dropped it, it was that popular.