You paid for the car, the insurance, the gas, and the repairs — but real owners are finding out they don’t actually own it. In this video, real owners and mechanics explain the subscription fees for features already installed, a Ford patent that can refuse to shift into drive based on your heart rate, a Bronco that shut down in highway traffic over a late payment, and a manufacturer that sued its own customers for finding a free workaround. And I break down why your name on the title doesn’t mean what you think it means anymore.
We are well and truly in the era of post-giving-a-shit on the part of corporations because the no matter what they do - enough people will buy it anyway.
People in this city could travel four miles and save sixty cents a gallon on gas because of AI pricing, but all 16 pumps are still full at the price-gouging Circle K because it’s right next to the freeway on-ramp.
Convenience is a service in itself. That’s why piracy isn’t actually a problem for game devs and why restaurants exist.