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In the end, the KIA car company made its cars into subscription models, I really hate this because in the end the car we buy with our own money doesn't feel like it belongs to us. Should we finally buy an old school car ? so as not to be affected by this subscription models or is there a way to crack the software installed in it ?

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[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

The car costs a lot of money and they already give you wareanty, free service and will in one way or another milk you for years to come. I don’t think one more connection to a server costs this much.

Especially since all the „telemetry” is uploaded for free.

[-] legion02@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

It's the cell plan not the server costs unfortunately. When they moved to app based starting from anywhere you need to start paying the cell carrier for that wireless connection.

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago

Servers and engineers to maintain the software and infrastructure are also not free.

[-] B0rax@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

Sure, but not $60/year per car expensive

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

No, that's still mostly the cellular connection.

[-] B0rax@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Bulk cellular connection at that scale is much less than $1 per month per car.

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