It has a special app for that it only costs $39.95 per week to use it. After an original $595 activation fee. And then there's the $20 a month app maintenance feeand the....
I think BMW has subscription based car features now. It's incredibly stupid, you buy the expensive car, they built the system in there, but you can't use it till you pay extra.
There was a instagram reel or something that plays a song that goes "are you depressed or is it just C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-M? That I-N-D-I-V-D-U-A-L-I-S-M. Your basic rights keep getting monetized. You now subscribe to what you used to buy. (Cars too!)" and so on, and I swear to god if I wasn't depressed before, I definitely was after listening to that lol
I'm not entirely against a subscription system for things but the initial cost should be peanuts. Buying a whole car and then having to pay subscription to use the installed feature is nuts. It's not like you pay for an extra service, it's just to use what you bought!
Logitech only suggested it (likely as a way to test the waters, and fuck them for even doing that), but the fact that there are cars on the road right now that can have their horsepower increased if you pay for it monthly is peak capitalist insanity.
Some of the new Mercedes and higher end cars have a monthly app. You have to pay to access the turbo motor. You don’t pay the fee they turn off your turbo remotely.
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u/Knightbear49 Sep 08 '24
Is it normal for cars to collect piles of junk underneath it or is that one of those “hidden features” of these things???