BMW are to charge people in certain areas $18 per month a subscription service for heated seats and steering wheel

Does that include activating the indicators

I think the steering wheel is actually a separate charge, but I might be wrong. This is the shift to you not owning anything. Instead you'll be forever paying to rent. Tesla is the same way. You don't own the software the car uses. People are buying used teslas with the fsd package only to have it disabled because they didn't pay tesla for it.

What is far worse than BMW (it WOULD be BMW, wouldn't it!?) doing it, is that people will legitimise this revolting iteration of moribund 21st century capitalism by actually paying for it too.

By the time I'm in my 80s (assuming I can afford the rent on my own body to live that long), we'll not be allowed to own anything at all.

BMW is just a status car anyway

There will be a hack to get around this I'm sure. Much like people will work out how to hack Tesla's electronic systems in the cars the Musk's company spews forth.

That is pure greed. Tge customer already paid extra for those features.

I've got 99 problems and capitalism is the root of all of them.

I remember when cars did not have these features.
Trying sitting on vinyl seats in the Winter. 😅

Do the seats also massage one's posterior? If not, I think I prefer coin slot operation. Put in a quarter and get heated massage...🤣

That sounds fair. Anyone that can afford a heated seat BMW obviously has too much money. So...

hope they get sued.

the car owners own that "hardware" and paid extra for it no doubt.

Outdated before it even hit the market

Goodnight. Next you'll have to pay per song on radio

Gotta love that corporate greed 🤑

BMW - Bavarian Money Wasters

WTF !!!

I would tell them not to fit the options when ordering the car lol

Wow that’s insanity. I have never thought about buying one but certainly wouldn’t now.