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      05-30-2025, 12:36 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by jamesinaz View Post
But at the 4 year mark suddenly the voice command system became "stupid". Oh, Connected Drive is a subscription service. $12.50 a month.

That kind of nickel and dime treatment for a car over $80K is annoying. If I buy a car with a feature that feature should not die. GPS updates? OK I'd pay it is new data they collected. But the actual feature didn't change or add funtionality.
They need a human assistant (Homo sapiens - intelligent!) to implement this feature. They must pay it. It takes outsourcing the job to a country where $12.50 a month makes decent money (and lets them save for themselves ). That's why the wording is limited. If they introduced a full-featured chat for the lonely it would cost much more.
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