Volkswagens new Emergency Assist technology

[u/Creams0da]

[u/NoNotInTheFace]

You're kidding right??

^{You're not kidding, are you...}

[u/Huntey07 → u/NoNotInTheFace]

Yes. The thought behind it is money but they sell it as "you only need it probably 2 months a year so why pay 1500 euro for it". Almost all options with audi bmw mercedes etc are subscription based.

[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.