Electric Goat
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I disagree with your opinion. Ford sold us on a car that would receive software updates and get better over time. I believe that they have an obligation to give us regular software updates to keep us as current a possible for at least the next few years. Letting a car die on the vine after 1 year is bad bad bad. I would have bought a Tesla instead. At least I can expect regular updates with a Model 3 or Model Y.*opinion alert; you are forewarned*
BLUF: Automakers do not give out things for free. Either they plan to charge for future updates, or they will let the previous year wither on the vine and push the better goodies to next year's model to incentivize upgrading.
Although the extra capacity would be nice, we're still dealing with one of the big three. These are the companies that made "planned obsolescence" a thing. Unless they are planning to introduce a paid update service along side (or embed within) their existing subscription offerings, what incentive do they have to continue to update last year's model? With a yearly release schedule, they are hard at work planning the upgrades for the next sales year, not worrying as much (if at all) about the cars they have already sold short of warranty work. Sure it is good PR to promise OTA updates, but did they ever say how long those updates would be rolled out? The '19 Mustang Bullitt I owned was sold with the capability to do OTAs, but it never received any. Why not? Because there was no incentive to do so. Sure I'd like to see them commit to keep supporting the vehicles they've already sold and am hopeful they do, but I'm not holding my breath.
And now back to our regularly scheduled forum topic...
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