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Tweet: Okay I thought this one straight up has to be hyperbole, there’s no way they’d make an airbag that checks your subscription status or it doesn’t go off, but it’s fucking TRUE: “Without the subscription service from In&Motion, the airbag system is non-operational.”
Quoted tweet: Reminder that Klim makes a motorcycle airbag vest that has a subscription service and if you don’t pay and get in a wreck it just doesn’t go off
Google results screenshot: Ai-1 Airbag Vest (Klim) - Choose from $12/month or $120/year subscription options, which include…
Original tweet dated 30th April 2021
You jest, but this could be the basis for a class action of sorts.
You own a car for what, 10 years? So for those 10 years, the car company has you by the balls. They can introduce new subscriptions or change your car’s computer in any way. And no one else can. Car companies should be forced to interoperable with other car operating systems and allow other companies to release competing services for that car brand.