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Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Isn't mercedes doing subscription heated seats etc?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I'm sure they knew it was a terrible idea. They just boiled the frog too quickly. They'll try it again in 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

BMW already dropped it, it was that popular.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

whatttttt