Pay To Drive – Update #2 Translated from Korean – From the South Korean Connected Drive BMW is charging monthly subscriptions for heated seats, a heated steering wheel, adaptive cruise control (Driving Assistant Plus), auto high beams, and the built-in dash cam (Drive Recorder) in South Korea. This means that cars equipped with all of… Continue reading Pay To Drive – Update #2
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Pay To Drive – Update
Pay To Drive – Update In September, I made a post about subscription-based heated seats in select BMW cars. In that post, I mentioned that it won’t be long before more things in the automobile world will be subscription based in years to come. Well, I guess it is “years to come” now. Mercedes-Benz has… Continue reading Pay To Drive – Update
Pay to Play, er, pay to drive?
Pay to Play, er, Pay to Drive? BMW is heading down a very slippery road, with its new subscription-based heated seat model. This really burns my ass, see what I did there. Seriously, this is the start of a very slippery slope. Today it is subscribing for heated seats, tomorrow it is subscribing to use… Continue reading Pay to Play, er, pay to drive?
Paywall Blues
Paywall Blues A paywall is one of those necessary evils and if I frequent a website then I have no problem paying a subscription fee. But what about those sites that you found via Google and you just want to read the one article and you really don’t want to pay $19.99 for one article… Continue reading Paywall Blues