Cars, after all, are nightmares of privacy invasion and rent-extraction, the source of #autoenshittification on a massive scale, a mobile form of #technofeudalism:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

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#autoenshittification ideas to come:
Safety as a Service: Subscribe to ensure your seat belts secure in place. Premium subscribers also ensure the air bags will deploy in case of impact.
Visibility as a Service: Subscribe now to enable exterior lights to be turned on at night. Premium subscribers will have them turn on automatically.
Signal as a Service: No more sticking your hand out the window to tell other drivers where you're going. Subscribe now to activate turning signals.

@GossiTheDog Per this article, https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/

I would expect no less of Tesla than to attempt to charge the customers to
a) not disable the car when the camera lense is blocked and
b) take down those videos

#Autoenshittification #Tesla #EV #Surveillance

You don't own your car at all: when you sell it as a used vehicle, Tesla strips out these features you paid for and makes the next driver pay again, reducing the value of your used car and transfering it to Tesla's shareholders:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-autopilot-disabled-remotely-used-car-update

To maintain this rent-extraction racket, Tesla uses DRM that makes it a felony to alter your own car's software without Tesla's permission. This is the root of all #autoenshittification:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

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Pluralistic: #Autoenshittification (24 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

Cory Doctorow: #autoenshittification: How the computer killed capitalism (and replaced it with technofeudalism)
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

"Car companies are on the forefront of postcapitalism, and they understand that digital is the key to rent-extraction."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

#enshittification #autoenshittification #rentextraction #latestagecapitalism #endstagecapitalism