It's the loss of control that bugs me. When I buy a car I am not buying an ongoing relationship with the car's maker; I'm buying a physical object, which is the

It's the loss of control that bugs me. When I buy a car I am not buying an ongoing relationship with the car's maker; I'm buying a physical object, which is then mine, and I'll choose when and how it will be serviced. The over-the-air auto-update thing is as though... well, it's like some mechanic from the automaker shows up at your house unannounced a year after you took your car off the lot; without a word, they haul your car away on a trailer for an hour, then bring it back and park it. Ta-da, hope you like what we did to "your" car, because it's done now whether you wanted it or not!