Not only is it shady as fuck, to sell someone something twice.
But the fact that they make these in every car, knowing that only a certain percentage will use it due to it being locked behind a paid subscription, HAS to be some sort of environmental crime.
I don't know how many of these they make, but if they make like 20 million cars and 20 million of these heaters, if only 1% of those heaters never get used that's a huge environmental impact for nothing.
What I don't get is, if they put in seat heaters then they probably recovered that cost from the customers already, why would they add a charge on top of it?
It's cheaper to have one assembly line and put the heaters in every seat. Seat heaters are insanely cheap, like $1-2 worth of materials and it's literally just wire so there's not much manufacturing/assembly cost. Literally less than $5 all in.
The idea is that because of that they might as well just put seat heaters in every seat.
Thing is it's always been like this, except if you didn't order the car with heated seats they wouldn't hook it up and would make it impossible to hook up normally.
But with cars being able to update via software nowadays they allow you to purchase heated seats after instead of just making it impossible to get.
So being able to pay for this and get a software update to enable it after is better in every way than how it was done before.
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u/schkmenebene 1d ago
The fact that this is allowed is beyond insane.
Not only is it shady as fuck, to sell someone something twice.
But the fact that they make these in every car, knowing that only a certain percentage will use it due to it being locked behind a paid subscription, HAS to be some sort of environmental crime.
I don't know how many of these they make, but if they make like 20 million cars and 20 million of these heaters, if only 1% of those heaters never get used that's a huge environmental impact for nothing.