Automakers are increasingly obsessed with turning everything into a subscription service in a bid to boost quarterly returns. We’ve noted how BMW has embraced making heated seats and other fea…
  • CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Heated seats use a heating element which just needs power and ground. They can’t encrypt that.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes you can run your own wire and glue a switch to the console. But it won’t work in the car’s ui. And I bet everything over 5v for USB is off a computer controlled relay. So you’d have to patch into the high voltage battery and do your own dc to dc conversion.