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Subscription services or software restricted features for cars should just be outlawed entirely.
Nobody likes these, if someone is willing to deal with a subscription product then they can do that aftermarket. The car itself should never come with something that will require recurring payments.
I think it's fair if Mazda has to operate a server to enable it, but I think Mazda should have to pay car owners to allow them to connect the car to a mobile network, especially for operating their spyware/telemetry.
No. Either you support it for a predetermined few decades as part of the vheicle cost, or let the consumer switch to a different service.
Option 3 take the stop killing games approach and grant the user the server back end when they stop supporting it themselves so users can host it themselves
That too
With your way, now everyone has to pay for the subscription service of remote starting, even those who would never use it and just want to use their keyfob, your idea is worse
Just like every feature on every car?
What the fuck are you talking about.
There are at the very least trim levels and usually a bunch if options so you literally don't have to pay for things you don't want/need
So require an upfront cost for the service.
I shall point you to my original comment
As long as they give me a way to run my own server for free, I agree with you.
They can literally just run a server locally on the car itself on a seperate non critical board that handles the functions locally
The only problem with that is how they handle root level authentication. I don’t want some script kiddie pwning my car.
Well it's double shit if you can't get the remote start on a FOB now. Fuck Mazda for that bullshit.
Completely agree. I use the fob.
OK, they can add $1 to the price of the car for a lifetime subscription (and no the load probably will never add up to that).
You still have to pay for the cell service to connect the car. That's going to cost a whole lot more than $1
But not that much more.
A consumer mobile connection is about $30 a month. A car company could get it cheaper, not just by buying in bulk, but also because by not needing that much bandwidth for their connection.
A car is is multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars and a 3g, low data IoT sim card is less than $100.
Fucking what?
This is the equivalent of "I mean, it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?"
Most of us aren't buying lambos.
Do they? Why can't the 2 devices communicate directly?
...because something needs to check you've paid your subscription. A man in the middle.
You'd probably still need at least some sort of discovery server for devices to find each other.
Pear to pear multiplayer games work without a server,
Why can't they install some server on a seperate non critical board that handles those functions locally
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