On Mar 9, 2015, at 8:09 PM, David Nelson via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> "If our vehicle owners customize our vehicles..." > > I thought when a vehicle was purchased and the owner held the title > that the vehicle was no longer the manufacturers. For ages, you haven't been able to buy software; you only buy a license to be able to use the software in ways that the company "selling" it to you approves of. Similar "end user license agreements" have been making their way into basically any physical device that runs software. You may think you own your TV, but you really only own a license to press buttons on the remote control. Teslas are frequently described as more computer than car. I wouldn't at all be surprised if nobody actually owns any Teslas but Musk, who effectively owns them all. He just sells you a license that permits you to drive it in approved manners. To be fair, such is the case with basically _all_ modern vehicles, regardless of the source of motive power. It's just that much more "in your face" with Teslas, given their automatic over-the-air updates and the amount of control they visibly assert and how hard they push back against "owners." There're reasons I drive cars older than I am, and a very important one is that I actually own the things. Cheers, b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150309/c2f6bbf5/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
