That would require more logistics to get different modules, checks to make sure the right ones are installed and labor to install them. Somewhere there is a cutoff point where modularity is cheaper.

Most car for the last decade or two already come with a lot of options built-in that are simply disabled by software in the factory. It’s cheaper to just build in a standard set of electronics and disable what’s not bought by the customer because many brands still like to milk the customer with options. Subscriptions just take the buying of options to renting.

VW here also also has the “lifetime subscription” for this. That makes it basically the same as you buying the option and they switch in it on in the factory. It’s just plain in your face that it’s behind a paywall while the old checking options didn’t feel as much as a paywall.

Anyway, I went with Hyundai. They didn’t do options and subscriptions. You only get to choose the model and looks, that’s it.

to purposefully distract with gays, immigrants so they could keep giving out blowies to billionaires

“GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert.”

Yeah, feels like. Not actually examples of thinking and doing things at that level.

“These systems, as impressive as they are, haven’t been able to be really profitable,” … “There is a fear that we need to keep up the hype, or else the bubble might burst, and so it might be that it’s mostly marketing.”

That’s the painful truth. No profit, a lot of hype and a market in a 2008 financial crisis bubble.