The businesses are launching a joint venture to develop platforms for “software-defined vehicles.”
Big oof.
that sounds just awful
Enshittification on another whole level
Yay, subscriptions for everything! Car as a service! What's not to like?? 🤮
So I just need to run an Ansible playbook and my sedan turns into a pickup truck?
Isn't this more or less what Tesla did?
I don't know if they were the first, but they're one of the most notorious offenders.
VW has been doing it for years anyway.
Multiple features of their infotainment are there but softlocked out, the engines on the more powerful trim levels aren't different or tuned, it's just a different ecu map, etc.
I have observed that myself with the infotainment system of my 2017 Golf Alltrack, but when did they start software derating their engines? My understanding is that there's nothing much to be gained from an aftermarket ECU tune unless I switch to premium gas and the more powerful Golf models have other real differences like bigger turbochargers.
With the entire vehicle constructed from IoT components
"You wouldn't download a car."
Sounds like it's time to turn my phone into a car already.
Don't give Apple any ideas
They just disbanded that project.
Given Apple's track record for allowing people to repair their devices this would have been a nightmare product
To be fair, repairing any modern car is kind of a nightmare.
Especially electric ones.
"What's that you have code for the battery?you need a full new one, we don't replace bad cells."
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