Problem is that it makes it so easy that eventually we'll end up in a world where you can't outright own a car and everyone is stuck in perpetual leases. This already happened with the software industry with most stuff nowadays being a subscription.
> This already happened with the software industry with most stuff nowadays being a subscription.
It hasn't really happened yet. There is still plenty of software you can own. None of the software I use is subscription-based, and there no software that I lack.
But yes, this is clearly the direction that software companies want to go, and I think it's important that we reject this.
Yes but right now car manufacturers have probably done the math and realize it's profitable to sell cars outright at a certain price, that while expensive, is still affordable to at least the upper middle classes.
With this technology that allows ultra-personalized, real-time rent seeking over every minor feature of the car, it may become more profitable for car manufacturers to force everyone to a lease so they can use this tech, thus intentionally raising the price even more (out of reach of pretty much everyone) for the "own outright" model.
