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▲ MiiMe19 11 hours ago

Because we don't care about capitalism, we don't want over the air updates to our cars.

▲beached_whale 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't want my vehicle connected at all. It's an open invitation to privacy reducing tech and exploits.

▲darkwater 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I want OTA updates in my car, but I want just benign ones, which add features for free as the software improves.

This kind of attitude is like saying "I don't want software that updates on my PC" when you are actually complaining about SaaS products.

▲achierius 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When you're fighting the same enemy on a dozen battlefields, you won't stand a chance of winning until you understand that fact and go after the root cause.

▲dalmo3 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Because enshittification wouldn't happen in a centrally-planned economy? What's the basis of this?

▲sham1 6 hours ago | parent [-]

This feels to me like a false dichotomy. The only alternative to the current way of doing things isn't a planned command economy, no matter what "libertarians" or tankies might argue.

▲panick21_ an hour ago | parent [-]

Then explain how it would work exactly.

Anything other then capitalism with slightly more regulation is just going from the US to Germany. Great, but they have software updates on cars too.

If you want to change anything more fundamental, you are going to have to do a planned economy.

At best you can say, maybe could be slightly better Germany by having a better political process or something. But even then, software updates in your car are going to be a reality because it solves are problem for manufactures, saves consumers lots of time in many cases and generally the positives outway the negatives.

I bet you 100% that in any planned economy OTA updates would still happen.

At best we can argue for some better practice about OTA Updates in regards to security and functionality. Maybe forcing manufactures to have a 'security only' feed an a 'feature feed'.

▲slg 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Then don't frame the argument as "over-the-air updates are bad because of capitalism".

▲BurningFrog 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I love the over the air updates of my car!