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[โ€“] [email protected] 179 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If once you do not succeed, just try again next year. They tried and backtracked putting heated seats behind a paywall not even a year ago see here.

Unless laws are made to make this fundamentally illegal, they'll just keep pushing until it sticks. And once one manufacturer succeeds, they'll all follow.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

Since 2019 you have to pay 800$ a year to have your bmw use adaptive drive, 150$ to use the app.