blackshirt comments on Toyota reveals desire to charge customers for new features added through over-the-air software updates

Toyota reveals desire to charge customers for new features added through over-the-air software updates (www.carsguide.com.au)

submitted 2 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/automotive@discuss.tchncs.de

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Toyota has launched a paid service that allows GR Yaris and GR Corolla owners to add a cooling function for the electronic control system of their car via a smartphone app.

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[–] blackshirt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Toyota's gonna down the shitter too.

What are we left with? Any decent brands left?

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[–] Manalith@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Weren't they one of the original "we charge for remote start" people that after pushback decided all cars will come with 10 years of remote start before you have to pay or something?

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Well Slate hasn't launched yet so we dont know how they plan to enshitify. But so far they have the right idea, telemetics is optional physical hardware that is sold separate.

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