On 29 Feb 2016 at 11:37, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > Car-makers put all this tech into the vehicle, just to let it get old (then > the owner has to pay to upgrade it).
I suspect that there are many reasons that automakers build "connectivity" into their cars. Some of them are just competitive, as in keeping up with the other automakers' feature creep. Other reasons just creep me out. For example, where and how I drive is none of their damn business. No matter what nice things they can do with that information, I'm not going to let them have it. As for this particular case, I doubt that Nissan expected AT&T to shut down their 2G (GMS) network. Five+ years ago, when Nissan first arranged with (and paid) AT&T to use their network, even AT&T may not have known that. (IMO, if we had decent telecom regulation in this nation, AT&T wouldn't have been allowed to shut down GSM service, because it makes millions of older GSM-only mobile phones obsolete and unusable. But that's another issue entirely, and off topic, so I'll stop there.) > When a better plan would be to see that people constantly update their > phones, thus just make the vehicle's connectivity go through the phone. Not everyone owns a smartphone (about one-third of Americans don't). Some don't always have phones with them in the car. Some won't want the car using their phones, because they pay by the megabyte or gigabyte for data. A scant few (I'm among them) have their smartphones tightly reined in, so that even if their phones are in their cars, they can't provide the kind of data service Nissan or whomever might want. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
