Yeah but leasing the physical car normally meant you got the car and all associated functionality, for the duration of the lease. The alarming change here is in

Yeah but leasing the physical car normally meant you got the car and all associated functionality, for the duration of the lease. The alarming change here is incorporating a lease (of software/hardware controlled functionality) into the actual purchase of a car. See: John Deere & tractors, Right to Repair, etc.