VW wants you to subscribe to your car

Stefan Mileschin · 11th June 2021, 06:52

This will go down well

Adolf Hitler’s favourite car company, VW, wants drivers to pay a subscription to use the self-driving features of its cars.

The fee will be about $8.50 per hour if Volkswagen follows through on its boardroom musings. This is not car rental or the lecky but to have the automatic driving switched on.

Thomas Ulbrich, a Volkswagen board member, told the German newspaper Die Welt that VW is also exploring a range of subscription features for its electric vehicles, including “range or performance” increases that can be purchased on an hourly or daily basis.

Ulbrich said the first subscription features would appear in the second quarter of 2022 in vehicles based on Volkswagen’s MEB platform, which underpins the company’s new ID.3 compact car and ID.4 crossover.

The executive said that Volkswagen would also offer video games in cars, similar to Tesla’s arcade. “In the charging breaks, even if they only last 15 minutes, we want to offer customers something”, Ulbrich said.

https://fudzilla.com/news/53019-vw-w...be-to-your-car

11th June 2021, 06:52	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 149,288	VW wants you to subscribe to your car This will go down well Adolf Hitler’s favourite car company, VW, wants drivers to pay a subscription to use the self-driving features of its cars. The fee will be about $8.50 per hour if Volkswagen follows through on its boardroom musings. This is not car rental or the lecky but to have the automatic driving switched on. Thomas Ulbrich, a Volkswagen board member, told the German newspaper Die Welt that VW is also exploring a range of subscription features for its electric vehicles, including “range or performance” increases that can be purchased on an hourly or daily basis. Ulbrich said the first subscription features would appear in the second quarter of 2022 in vehicles based on Volkswagen’s MEB platform, which underpins the company’s new ID.3 compact car and ID.4 crossover. The executive said that Volkswagen would also offer video games in cars, similar to Tesla’s arcade. “In the charging breaks, even if they only last 15 minutes, we want to offer customers something”, Ulbrich said. https://fudzilla.com/news/53019-vw-w...be-to-your-car

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