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Tweet: Okay I thought this one straight up has to be hyperbole, there’s no way they’d make an airbag that checks your subscription status or it doesn’t go off, but it’s fucking TRUE: “Without the subscription service from In&Motion, the airbag system is non-operational.”

Quoted tweet: Reminder that Klim makes a motorcycle airbag vest that has a subscription service and if you don’t pay and get in a wreck it just doesn’t go off

Google results screenshot: Ai-1 Airbag Vest (Klim) - Choose from $12/month or $120/year subscription options, which include…

Original tweet dated 30th April 2021

  • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What’s the functional difference between “disable the vest remotely” and “send repo men to take the vest away”? In either case, you no longer have access to the air bag, but in the former case you can resume paying for it much more easily. I would personally far rather a “subscription” than a traditional lease; I can stop paying when I don’t need the thing or can’t afford it, and seamlessly resume using it when I need to and have money.

    • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What’s the functional difference between “disable the vest remotely” and “send repo men to take the vest away”?

      If there’s no functional difference then why turn it off? It’s unnecessary bullshit that had to be designed and would have cost them nothing to not do in the first place. Why spend more money and make it more complicated for no gain? And you’re even opening up security vulnerabilities by letting it connect to the internet.

      I would personally far rather a “subscription” than a traditional lease; I can stop paying when I don’t need the thing or can’t afford it, and seamlessly resume using it when I need to and have money.

      I would rather there not be any sort of subscription model for fucking safety equipment. If your netflix subscription expires because you’re broke that’s one thing, it won’t kill you, but for equipment that is designed to save lives, turning it off because someone is poor is fucking barbaric, especially when it would have cost them nothing to leave it turned on.