That plus:

- Impossible to repair without going to the vendor.

- subscription for seat warmers and "full accelerating curve" (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23474969/mercedes-car-su...)

- random feature disabling (https://www.wired.com/story/fight-right-repair-cars-turns-ug...)

Modern cars. Older cars don’t spy in you or need subscriptions to bypass arbitrary hardware restrictions. But newer cars are ‘safer’, so it’s kind of a crappy tradeoff