melroy@kbin.melroy.org to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world · 17 days agoVW introduces monthly subscription to increase car powerwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square157linkfedilinkarrow-up1567arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.worldfuckcars@lemmy.worldnottheonion@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@lemmit.online
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minus-squareCorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-215 days ago features that they can’t afford to maintain That logic might work for GPS service, but the example in the article is a bike where the battery’s discharge rate and capacity are limited by software, and those limits can be increased via software if you pay a subscription.
That logic might work for GPS service, but the example in the article is a bike where the battery’s discharge rate and capacity are limited by software, and those limits can be increased via software if you pay a subscription.