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Mercedes Locks Faster Acceleration Behind a $1,200 Paywall

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0:00 ████ [Laughter] you're literally the dumbest person what is this [Music] we are moving in the subscription paywall digital age like for cars and everything for cars and everything exactly cars cars Mercedes dude you haven't heard of this Mercedes has just heated seats and ████ you gotta pay pay wall that ████ even though it's available I'm sorry Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a 1200 annual

0:50 payment oh my God no faster acceleration weird so your car is capable but you have to pay to unlock the future that's ████ weird we're gonna do computers like this soon it's going to be wild on computers yeah think about it it's like oh well your computer has all this access to like extra storage but you got to pay more to like what a ████ scam that is that's the description model dude I'm gonna buy only old cars man for real God damn this is what's the point yeah but then if you have an old car that's not electric the government's gonna like charge you extra or some ████ watch God damn there's no more gas stations it's all a racket dude no because like if you want heat your car like has heated seats but you can't access them unless you pay 30 months or whatever and then it turns on so the 1200 yearly subscription improves performance by boosting output from the motors by 20 to 24 increasing torque and shaving around 0.8

1:41 to 0.9 seconds off of the 0 to 60. it's a lot really it's gonna happen right okay black box they're just gonna make a firmware that jailbreaks it yup that's tight always and Ryan's going to be the first guy in there I respect but I bet you if you do it then let Voyager warrants oh for sure oh yeah they'll break your ████ car who gives a ████ you know they'll just they're always going to be a workaround just like key gens you hit I agree that means we can brick your car because you did this ████ it's no different than voiding a warranty like um you want to open up your PS5 and then you have a problem with it well guess what they find out you tampered with it no warranty ████ you yeah but as long as it's electronic I feel like that's why white hats are going to come in and ████ fix that someone's gonna find a way what's up with this ████ why can't they just ████ make money The Honorable way where give me sell me something sick and I'll pay full price yeah pistol I mean historically there's compromise always

2:32 wins like in in terms of like when they made music inaccessible and then everyone just started napstering the the comp the Great Compromise happened of like okay we can't sue everybody's doing this we can't break everybody's shoes so let's find a middle ground yeah I think they're just starting off with this because that's the power play and then there's gonna be a backlash and then they're gonna go okay okay well how about this and if you remember they they made sure to make an example out of some people right like Napster yeah like those poor people you think they're in jail oh dude some random people got like sued for millions of dollars just some random ass Blue Collar person just goes down big time and they're like put it on the news big headline if you do this this could happen to you scares people Silk Road same ████ that guy went away right they're doing with some crypto people same ████ yeah it's just it's the

3:22 model and then like you said the Great Compromise happens like as they figure out where they want to be regulatory wise well it makes sense for the Great Compromise for the auto mobile industry it depends how good the ████ hacking is like if people can hack the ████ out of it to where they're powerless which has happened historically with most things that are electronic hackers eventually win because there's too many of them and they're looking around the ████ clock you know this has its Global sales for new cars have fallen in recent years car manufacturers have pivoted towards selling software updates and features as subscriptions to generate a continuous Revenue stream long after a car has been purchased while this makes sense for certain software specific offerings such as premium navigation features or remote vehicle monitoring Mercedes pay Walling its vehicle performance is part of an emerging more loathsome Trend that sees Auto Brands restricting the capabilities

4:12 of Hardware that already comes Factory equipped with the vehicle I remember something like this more in like the 90s and early 2000s remember they had like Governors on cars yeah so like American cars like Chevys and Fords or whatever like you can only go up to like 85 or 90. but that's only because that car is in California so if you bought the same exact car and it's like in Arizona or something then you can go full like 150 or whatever but you didn't have to pay to unlock it that was just the law of the state so that they make the car based on the laws of the state to pay to unlock is ████ here yeah was it called chipped or something yeah it's chipped yeah you could chip it and you could like unlock it or whatever it's like having a skylight that you can't like doing it's like just sitting there but like you can't open it up because you didn't pay yeah it's ████ weird even though you paid for it yeah even when remember when DVD players were a

5:03 big thing to have in your car there was a there was a lock that didn't let you watch it when you were driving oh yeah the same guy that installs it can also disable that yeah just like with California water when they put your ████ shower head in there's a water conservation right in between the pipe and then lets less water out you asked the same guy hey can you take that out sure that's as easy as that that gets like you know what I mean everyone who can administer these different Electronics or anything with regulations are the same people that cannot do it too they're The Gatekeepers exactly what not to bring it up but water pressure Nevada way better just Sands make me a pipeline make me a pipeline please no Nikki Nikki who's last night was just she's just taking a shower at the hotel and she's like the waterproof is ████ horrible here and I'm like yeah and the drips they're saving the drips on you well it's half water and half taxes

5:58 you know what's funny is that water comes from Nevada too here yeah well it comes from Lake Mead and Hoover Dam yeah I don't know that like Lake Mead Southern California a bunch of the Southwest no ████ that's why people The Californians are laughing at Nevada look at Lake Mead I might do that short water too yeah a lot of it is them oh because it's like getting dry oh got it so I think they're just trying to find ways to go oh California's still better but it's like no we're all kind of in this together dude I would never talk ████ about Lake Mead man was it like me is it like me being diverted too like that's part of why the water levels have gone down I was just reading some ████ about it ████ by the way Nevada has incredible water conservation yep that's why um the the so the Colorado River tell this guy this guy hates Nevada

6:49 why you eat it I don't believe 911. clip it clip it he's at it he said it dead to rights you know it's funny he's like these things are obviously directed to the common person that doesn't know how to do a workaround and I think if there's enough of them that they don't complain they just pay for it yeah this will probably fly but then with things like let's say Adobe when Adobe became subscription based all the people that were hacking it it didn't affect them at all to this day are still using all the Adobe products I do think Adobe the adobe's food is cool yeah because instead of dropping like I don't know like a thousand bucks on like five programs now it's it's like eight dollars yeah yeah no it's not it's a subscription is the ████ updates I've been using Photoshop like a dream for years and then all of a sudden they do an update now and even when I go to

7:39 save it they're like do you want to save it as like like cloud-based ████ I'm like what the ████ guys what'd you do and then uh so you know you used to control t stretch an image or whatever the ████ now you control T it's like it's like wobbling all over the place I'm like no it used to just control teak it got the consistent and now it's all ████ I don't even know what I'm doing I hate these guys you have to like hold like option or control at the same time or I don't have an apple ████ I have a TPC yeah PCS shift you ████ I doubt literally a ████ idiot you little man [Laughter]

8:43 so I was quoting Glenn Gary Glen Ross for like the last like 90 seconds that wasn't even Steve Green yeah that's that's what I think is like people will pay for when it's when it's convenient and easy they'll pay for the legit thing only when it's convenient and easy yep and that's how it should be because sometimes it's too much of a pain in the ass to hack some ████ then you won't do it oh I'll just pay for it oh you're right you know how to hack Adobe sweet you anybody could just Google how to get Adobe Ryan's probably gonna answer anything like anybody could when really just Ryan knows how to do it no it's like if anyone can make nuclear missiles Ryan or it's like hey but hey Google don't Google that don't Google that yeah you'll end up until I had a discount with a worker that has connects like at Adobe and they gave me a discount for like whatever all of my ████ was pirated because it was just

9:34 easier yeah you'd be surprised how many professional musicians are running pirated software yeah melodyne Ableton most most professional musician ████ is not ████ legit dude final draft because they're that they're just that Savvy they're just like why buy it and he Premiere then I need Premiere I need to not pay for that you know what's Chris David so when you when you open it right just ████ type in the key there's hackers I've already made key gens like you hit it once and it goes type these six numbers in that doesn't work type V6 numbers in because usually when I type in when I see the ████ the the the the dialogue box that says hey type in your ████ key code and I'm like ah ████ you get a key gen thing that's that's the problem I think with with the business model is starting to charge people things that they're not used to paying for just like Elon musk's thing he's rolling that back yeah well the Eight dollar Twitter's not offline like even that why and you think about

10:24 how like absolute that was when it came out but it's not it's probably gonna pay for it if no one's gonna do it then they're just gonna think of a compromise you guys want to know my little hack what I don't even pay for internet so check this out allegedly how do you do that so I moved into my neighborhood right yeah yeah I'm gonna make it good with the neighbors and ████ you go to the house oh hey what's your Wi-Fi let me keep their Wi-Fi put this ████ and putting ████ in there for Wi-Fi my neighbor pays for my ████ internet that's what do you do you get a extender you got a Wi-Fi extender Wi-Fi extenders all through my house and you get and you got all your devices only on one side of the house every one of my ████ plugs with a Wi-Fi extender oh my God save it on the subscription

11:14 part that's what I ████ you dude they doubled my ████ internet his Wi-Fi extenders have subscriptions it's at like 80 bucks a month dude my internet went from like ████ 45 a month to like 90 a month [Laughter] thank you thank you very much and then Nick's like oh just making good deals babe that's what I'm doing making good deals I'm a businessman gonna make it cost more now for our car hold on I don't see the subscription ████ lasting for cars it seems like a meme right I don't see it last is it it's not logical it's like if I already bought

12:04 the material now you're gonna charge me for something that already exists that's weird but the great the Great Compromise could work uh like Ryan was saying though it's like um I would pay Adobe like x amount of money per year to keep using the program If instead of paying like 600 bucks for the program I only had to pay like 20 bucks to get it yeah and then I have to pay a subscription to keep it because that's what they did with iPhones now everyone with iPhones it's always like oh I only paid like 40 bucks a month instead of paying a thousand but but you're like oh but your contract lasts three years and you have to stick with them yeah you know what I mean and it's like so it's the same ████ so I could see that same thing I would totally get a Mercedes if you're like hey you can get this Mercedes off the lot for 500 bucks you just got to pay monthly XYZ I might be like that's a better deal yeah by the way I was just in the Volkswagen EV to when the Nancy's made

12:56 how to make a fine out of them wow they made the Volkswagen right but the Volkswagen EV I was just in it doesn't ask he's got some good science honestly one of the best rides it's smooth really nice is it SUV or is this sedan it was an SUV it was ████ nice too yeah it looks cool would you say that Nazis make a great product I think the Nazis make good highways Bridges freeways is this on patreon about this one

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