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posted by chromas on Friday July 03 2020, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the cloud-to-butt-plus dept.

From Ars Technica:

[...] BMW is planning to move some features of its new cars to a subscription model, something it announced on Wednesday during a briefing for the press on the company's digital plans.

[...] the Bavarian carmaker has plans to apply that model to features like heated seats. BMW says that owners can "benefit in advance from the opportunity to try out the products for a trial period of one month, after which they can book the respective service for one or three years." The company also says that it could allow the second owner of a BMW to activate features that the original purchaser declined.

From Roadshow:

These options will be enabled via the car or the new My BMW app. While some will be permanent and assigned to the car, others will be temporary, with mentioned periods ranging from three months to three years.

[...] So, yes, you could theoretically only pay for heated seats in the colder months if you like, or perhaps save a few bucks by only enabling automatic high-beams on those seasons when the days are shortest.

Also at Hot Hardware, The Drive, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, TechSpot, SlashGear & Forbes.


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday July 04 2020, @02:31PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday July 04 2020, @02:31PM (#1016113)

    a nigger-rigged Chinese fire-drill of a wire harness + toggle switch dangling from below your dash like you just hotwired the car and stole it.

    Our '99 Dodge RAM proudly displays one dangling toggle switch for the auxillary lights (factory headlights are damn near useless), and an in-dash drilled hole mounted push button to trigger release of the locked up seatbelts because the $400 module bit the dust years ago and after 30 minutes the belts lock like there was an accident, but we figured out that opening the door releases the belts, so the push button switch makes the computer think that a door pin switch is in the open position, giving us another 30 minutes of no locked belts until needing to be pressed again.

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