• El Barto@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The windows analogy is almost there.

    It’s more like, you pay for windows home edition, which would take up 24gb in your 128gb hard drive. But nope, it’s actually taking up 89gb. Why? Because it has all the features of Windows Ultimate edition, all locked away, taking up precious space in a hard drive that you’ve paid for.

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      1 year ago

      So you’re worried about the hard disk space in your car ? Can you even access that as an end-user?

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          1 year ago

          What components are adding weight? AFAIK the components used by FSD are already in use by other features.

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            1 year ago

            I’m not specifically talking about FSD, and if that is the case, then cool.

            But when it’s shit like heated seats, then that’s bullshit. If you ever need to replace your seats, they will make you pay for the expensive model - with that disabled feature.

            Anyway. Regardless, I’ll never buy a car with disabled features unless I pay a subscription.

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          1 year ago

          Sure, but your analogy doesn’t make any sense. There is no downside to you because of this feature being in your car in a disabled state.

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            It’s not my analogy, but it does make sense if you even remotely think about it. The downside is that my car carries extra weight in the form of this additional hardware. Also depending on exactly what the hardware is, it can be an additional point of failure that could potentially cause things that I do have access to to break. Lastly, it’s fair to assume that the price of the car would be cheaper if Tesla didn’t have to install this hardware into every car even if it will never be used, so you are likely already paying for this in “hidden” costs that are just rolled into the total price of the car before even paying to enable the features.