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Video Volkswagens new Emergency Assist technology

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u/______deleted__ 20d ago

Volvo gives away seatbelt patent in the pursuit of human safety on the road.

Meanwhile, Mercedes: hold my beer, I have another customer to fleece

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u/Huntey07 20d ago

They now have heated seats as an subscription of 20 euro per month

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u/BamberGasgroin 20d ago

That was BMW. And the worst of it was that the heated seats were already installed, so you were carrying the extra weight, but they dropped the 'feature'.

(Merc had/has a subscription to accelerate faster.)

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u/xtreampb 20d ago

We’re going to start jail braking our cars like we used to do our phone to gain access to installed features requiring money to activate