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I'm personally worried that if I buy one it'll get bricked by a bad update, or the company no longer supporting it, or any number of BS non-mechanical reasons. It's impossible to buy one that isn't tied to it's builder permanently. I want to OWN my vehicle.
In fairness, this is a problem with basically every car post 2016.
In fairness, this is why I won't buy a new ICE car either. In principle, I would love to have an EV, but unless I decide to retrofit something I'm never gonna have one, because the surveillance shit in every new car is an absolute and permanent deal-breaker.