Oh, I think we found the actual troll, folks lol. He’s an angry one! “Drinking the Koolaid” may be a new term to you. It’s not to most people. When you say a company does something required by law out of kindness, you are drinking the Koolaid.
There are a few that offer connectivity for 3-5 years. Ford. Kia. But not for life, as far as I know.
I didn’t say it was a new term. I said it had nothing to do with the topic since you annointed yourself content manager of the forum and decided to grade my post for me.
Yeah I had a couple of Mach E’s that had certain connectivity features, but not the to the degree of Rivian. No free hotspot, for example. But I sold them almost 2 years ago, so maybe something changed. I know that their hands free driver system is $600 per year though, and that would be a hard, hard pass for me. Rivian’s works really well IMO and it’s free for life.
Rivian does not have hands free driving. Ford offers the same features as Driver+, for free. It is called Copilot 360. It is only hands free BlueCruise that is a subscription.
Correct, I should have been more clear. Driver + isn’t handsfree, but you get like 15 seconds at a time if you need it which is fine for me. Personally, I found that it works about as well as BlueCruise for my daily driving purposes but without having to pay $600 per year. Ford’s non-BlueCruise lane keep assist function was absolutely horrible when I had my Mach E’s because it ping-ponged in the lanes like crazy. If I turned on BlueCruise, it worked much better and was really the only way I could get use out of the driver assist features on the highway. I wouldn’t go handsfree even if I could for safety reasons. So what I mean is that functionally speaking, I think BlueCruise was basically the same as Driver+ for my use cases, and that will be free forever. There won’t be automatic lane changes, true, but I wouldn’t trust it to do that anyway. We’ve seen too many crashes because people rely almost solely on the car to drive for them instead of using those features as merely an aid.
I think you are having a hard day. It's OK. Happens to trolls...I didn’t say it was a new term. I said it had nothing to do with the topic since you annointed yourself content manager of the forum and decided to grade my post for me.
So after the IPO a company cannot legally add any services that might cost the customer money? Please back that up with some actual evidence. Post the law here. I bet companies that have been around for 60-70 years (before the concept of in vehicle connectivity was even dreamed of) will be very interested in that legal theory.
When did this happen? Rivian advertised free LTE for life? Legit question as i do not recall this. They had pitched some membership idea (at a cost) then announced they would break out the services (at cost) and announced a while ago that free-LTE would, as expected (I thought), end.
So, just to confirm... there is no specific law you are referring to? Because that is what you claimed
