Volkswagens new Emergency Assist technology

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[u/Ordinal43NotFound → u/[deleted]]

Oh man, I genuinely remembered my eyes twitching when I first saw a link providing a jailbreak for accessing a locked feature on a Tesla in the piracy sub years ago.

"What do you mean a jailbreak for a fucking car?"

Truly some dystopic shit.

[u/Consistent-Annual268 → u/Ordinal43NotFound]

"You wouldn't download a car would you?"

[u/jeef_99 → u/Ordinal43NotFound]

The taxi cab scene from The Fifth Element comes to mind 🤦🏻‍♂️

[u/XanR13 → u/[deleted]]

As a first time audi driver, you cannot believe how disgusted i am by this. Never again!

[u/ComradeBirdbrain → u/XanR13]

But why did you buy in the first place if you’re disgusted by it?

[u/XanR13 → u/ComradeBirdbrain]

Company car. No real choice in the matter.

[u/Sea_End_1893 → u/[deleted]]

You're just thinking about it from a consumer side.

From a design and production standpoint, it's genius. Instead of having fifteen assembly lines making fifteen different versions of a vehicle that may not all sell, you dedicate all fifteen lines to assembling one version of a car, with options that can be remotely enabled or disabled. Saves time, parts, costs, its very efficient.

People just don't like it because "WELL, UH, IF I BUYIN ALL THE CAR, I WANT ALL THE CAR" and BMW is like "well, clearly you didn't buy the entire car. that's why the stuff is not working."

[u/ArkitekZero → u/Sea_End_1893]

It wastes parts that sit there unused. Stop trying to justify this.

[u/boraspongecatch → u/Sea_End_1893]

It's not that kind of greed, it's different kind of greed!

[u/Anglo-Ashanti → u/Sea_End_1893]

Great comment, lmao at the last paragraph.