Pay as you go driving!

[Lancpudn]

Originally Posted by trikey

The difference is a T4 session costs biscuits...

What! no cup of tea?

[BigRuss]

Originally Posted by Lancpudn

Yes I can imagine some bright person will be able to hack the cars & sell the hack at a fraction of the price to activate all features.

With the BMW it's very likely that you can, all you need is the right equipment, and you can programme and reprogramme, it's all available, but the good cloned stuff isn't cheap

Russ

[clf]

Originally Posted by macafee2

Had to Google what is was and found this.....BMW's high-beam assist adds to your driving safety. The system monitors the driving conditions and if necessary turns your car's high beam lights on and off automatically.


Ff someone is so lazy or useless they want this feature, they deserve to pay for it

macafee2

if they cannot use indicators, do you really think a BMW driver knows there is a full beam?

[SCP440]

A mate with a 10 year old Skoda Octavia that he bought while still under warranty went into the main dealer to say he had a fault with the lights in the bottom of the front bumper. The dealer said these were cornering lights and they were not activated unless he paid £80. Everything was there including the bulbs but the software needed activation.

He didn't bother and when he went to a specialist once the warranty had finished they switched them on for free.

On my Transit van it has the basic display but apparently the dealers can switch on loads of other bits and even cruise control is only a switch and a software click to activate and my van is 12 years old.

[AndyN01]

Originally Posted by clf

if they cannot use indicators, do you really think a BMW driver knows there is a full beam?

Of course....

They don't know where dipped is 'cus they're in a BMW and need to be lit up like a Christmas tree so EVERYONE can see them .

[StewartIngram]

Originally Posted by clf

if they cannot use indicators, do you really think a BMW driver knows there is a full beam?

More likely they use it all the while (including daylight) and need assist to find dipped beam or Off.

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by Lancpudn

Yeah very similar, From 2026 VW will be launching project 'Trinity' whereas the car you buy wouldn’t come in variants: The hardware for all features on offer would be built into every car, but would remain latent until you activate /subscribe to the software that runs it.
I wonder how long it will take them to run adverts on those screens & then ask you if you want to go ad free by paying 'X' amount of money to shut them off

Yeah, but we will be able to buy the "keys" on the dark web and £-bay!

Kev

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by macafee2

Had to Google what is was and found this.....BMW's high-beam assist adds to your driving safety. The system monitors the driving conditions and if necessary turns your car's high beam lights on and off automatically.


Ff someone is so lazy or useless they want this feature, they deserve to pay for it

macafee2

Well, in my neck of the woods people/drivers keep their high beam on either:-

1. Slow reactions (to turn back to dip).
or
2. They keep high beam on so that they can continue to drive (fast) and don't want to pay "SpecSaver" prices.

Kev

[Lancpudn]

Originally Posted by torque2me

Yeah, but we will be able to buy the "keys" on the dark web and £-bay!

Kev

I'm sure some clever chap in Eastern Europe has already hacked it.