Last time I bought a car the dealer couldn't enable the Internet features because I said my phone was broken. He looked at me puzzled but I said I could buy the car some other day if that was a problem...
A dealer will never let a buying customer leave, so 3 years later my car still can't connect to the Internet.
AFAIK, most or all modern cars which depend on OTA updates have their own built-in cellular connectivity, the ongoing cost of which is baked into the sale price and/or optional subscription features.
Because they couldn't do the onboarding process with my phone, the OTA features never worked. Maybe the car still thinks it's sitting on the dealer or something. The free 1 year subscription that everybody gets also never started.
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Last time I bought a car the dealer couldn't enable the Internet features because I said my phone was broken. He looked at me puzzled but I said I could buy the car some other day if that was a problem...
A dealer will never let a buying customer leave, so 3 years later my car still can't connect to the Internet.
AFAIK, most or all modern cars which depend on OTA updates have their own built-in cellular connectivity, the ongoing cost of which is baked into the sale price and/or optional subscription features.
Because they couldn't do the onboarding process with my phone, the OTA features never worked. Maybe the car still thinks it's sitting on the dealer or something. The free 1 year subscription that everybody gets also never started.
This. The same thing works with some banks.