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The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions (www.motor1.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So far there's subscriptions for cruise control, adaptive beams, various navigation options, apple/google integration and my favorite, dual-zone climate.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Goodbye warranty then. Many manufacturers have already been doing that with chip tuning, which is also just a software modification. When you take your car in for service they read out the ECU to detect chip tuning, and your VIN gets flagged in their system if it has been modified. So if at some point in the future you make a warranty claim, you are SOL.

Then there's also the technical barriers they're putting up, locking them down so unauthorized software can't be flashed to them (much like Apple's iphone and ipad crap).