Or vice versa. I wouldn't trade my 2009 MiniCooper S with any beamer.even if they pay me. Slick, compact, perfect for the city, stays on the road, great acceleration.

Like heated seats in BMW?

Real switches and buttons cost money and can by-pass subscription. Touch controls, on the other hand, can be controlled by the mothership.
Want to turn up the volume? That's $5 per month.
At least BMW could have done away with the turn signal stick, no real BMW driver uses it.

Since when do you trust $big_corp? If they say they don't do something you can bet they ARE doing it.

to pay through your nose for the priviledge.

And then you'll have the risk of not voting as you intend. So better leve them in the dark, it's safer. /sarcams

So US will write in white letters Coca-Cola.

Nuke them for orbit? Oh, wait...

High orbits, kinetic weapons, the usual stuff.

Because it's their paying job to do it? I think they're called influencers now.

You can always opt out of ads for, say 20 euro/month. /sarcasm

So they can serve ads and spy on you, of course.

Naah, they just ran out of programmers and none of the monkey know how to code. It's that simple.

A small number. Like in 1 for every car. And that person must be always connected and see everything the car sees in order to be abler to advise.

Hmm, are you implying that crypto is just a finite resource and no more crypto is being produced?