New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions
This is a great step.  Subscriptions errode first sale protections by subscription-gating physical objects, allowing OEMs a work-around to first-sale doctrine.  If you buy something, you should own it, and be able to fix it, scrap it, re-sell it, whatever you want.<p>It's interesting NJ included self-driving in the subscription ban.  These require significant overhead in compute, engineering resources and greatly impact safety, and if Tesla's pricing is any indication of overall market, FSD will cost a pretty penny.<p>If full self-driving was offered at 10k up front for the life of the car, or $80/mo, I would imagine many buyers of lower-end vehicles would prefer a subscription.