I feel the same.

If I ever get a Tesla, which I won't, it would get hacked to shreds. I am not a fan of getting something sold to me that I already purchased.

I wish people would apply this logic to Apple aswell but they generally seem to let it slide because they like the company

Well that's the future they want anyway - for you to own nothing and be happy

Just the entire car

You don’t think they gift you heated seats do you? You pay for it, that’s part of the purchase price. They even save money because they don’t have to stock or install different types of seats.

Then you pay for it, and if you want to use it, you’ll pay for it again.

Welcome to the future. You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.

Actually, on that scale, it probably is more cost effective. They don't need separate factory lines, or to pump out cars with all sorts of different combinations of options. It takes better advantage of the economy of scale.

You'd be surprised. To make two different models, one without heated seats may very well cost more than just making one model with all the features built in. Now the cheaper version which normally wouldn't have these features at all actually does have them but they're disabled and that's why you paid less for it.

Tesla 85D and 100D both have the same battery pack too but on 85D it's digitally limited to smaller range and that's why it's cheaper.

Cost of equipment wasted vs cost of setting the plant up to make multiple option packages. Also, if you force someone to make a decision when they initially buy the vehicle, then you permanently never get that upgrade on that vehicle. However, if someone can chose later that they want heated seats then they might make the sale when the owner is sitting in their car on a cold winter morning freezing their butt off. Or, if the second owner wants it. All I'm saying is the cost of providing different manufacturing options vs the possible profits of someone purchasing it later, it is probably more profitable for them to do what they are doing. Otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.

Not just heated seats. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Tesla only makes one of each model of car. So there's only one Model 3. Everything else that differentiates the trim levels is done entirely in software.

This isn’t something new it’s been around in the auto industry for decades, way back in the day you would have to run the wiring if a customer purchased a towing package, they changed that over time by basically having the wire harnesses pre wired and instead you would just add a couple of plug and play components, the newest versions of this is software unlocks, they just got rid of the actual hardware stuff

Imagine being able to retrofit these with solid-state batteries when they’re a thing. These hackable 3s might someday go for a premium.

You might be laughing at the fog, but you aren't far from the truth period take a moment to look into the John Deere hacker's period you have these rough black farmers learning how to hack their combined machines, so they can work on them without having to have proprietary software, it is quite interesting and amazing period

Borderlands vibes lol

If I remember correctly, rear heated seats were only extra (and pre-installed just needing a software update to enable) once. There was a time when the cheapest model 3 was slightly too expensive for some rebates, so they sold a software locked version that was just barely was under the limit for the rebate. To reduce the initial price they software locked the rear heated seats, along with some battery capacity, and maybe one or two other things, all of which you could pay to unlock afterwards.

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