The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions [Update]
www.motor1.com
The 2025 Audi A3 looks sharper and comes with more tech, but you will have to pay a subscription for some basic in-car features.

So far there’s subscriptions for cruise control, adaptive beams, various navigation options, apple/google integration and my favorite, dual-zone climate.

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    10 months ago

    Why would anyone sign up for that? Now you have your car payment AND the fucking subscription? Makes no damn sense. What happens when they inevitably shut down their cloud servers that keep your access to the features in the car turned on? You never own the thing.

    • Dragster39@feddit.deEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      Ah yes, the moment you to have to break the law to own the stuff you bought. Audi A3 jailbreak

      • velvetThunderEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        What law do you break? I know it won’t be plausible for the general public because of warranties and all that.

        And some copyright things or something else will prevent repair shops from jailbreaking it for you.

        But what would prevent you legally from jailbreaking your own car?

    • 100_kg_90_de_belin @feddit.itEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      No one would sign up for that, but I bet that car maufacturers will make it the only model available. As for the shutting down of servers: something something small print