How would you feel if you were told your car came with an extra 100bhp but you couldn’t access it? Replace horsepower with computing power and that’s become reality with many new models about to hit the market.
These cars are being designed to do amazing things via the latest software and hardware, including sensors. But owners won’t be able to access their full potential when new, and may never if they replace their car often.
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I may be completely out of touch, but i cant see many people paying more to have extra features on a car once the thing is already paid for.
And it amazes me that during a supposed chip shortage that car makers would be putting extra ones into cars for features that dont work now, and are unlikely to be used later in a cars life.
If you look at cars as they get older things like air con, heated seats etc fail. Almost no one pays to have them fixed. owners of older cars attitude seems to be, if it will pass an MOT they dont care what still works. They wont pay to fix stuff they already have, so i cant see many paying for something they never had