Connected car servers won't be online indefinitely, and startups often go bust.

You wouldn’t just out of the blue completely drop support for something existentially necessary for someone to live their life and get to their job day to day would you?

Wait, you would? What the fuck? Weren’t you the one lecturing me about the ethics of downloading a car?!??

Before Fisker’s 2024 bankruptcy, just 419 Fisker Oceans made it into British driveways. One unfortunate buyer, a marketing manager from Southampton, experienced the worst of the brand’s teething troubles. After taking delivery, her Ocean was plagued by persistent software glitches. Following a call to Fisker, engineers were dispatched to collect the vehicle for repairs, but when the car was due to be collected, it refused to start. Mere days later, Fisker declared insolvency, leaving the Ocean stranded as a 5,500 lb (2,500 kg) driveway ornament for the next ten months with no solution in sight.

  • mastertigurius@lemmy.world
    81·
    6 days ago

    So releasing an incomplete or untested product should be the privilege of the innovators, and their customers should be the ones shouldering all expense and risk? Should we apply the same principle to the pharmaceutical industry?

      • mastertigurius@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        You live in a capitalistic economy where money defines your worth. I live in a country where consumer and labour rights matter. The reason people have protections here is because they wanted to live in a social democracy and weren’t okay with taking shit. They fought for it so that my generation would be better off. Time for you to do the same.