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But if dealers no longer add enough value to the process of buying a car, doesn't that just mean that they either have to find new value to add or simply cease
by oneplane 5y ago
But if dealers no longer add enough value to the process of buying a car, doesn't that just mean that they either have to find new value to add or simply cease to exist because their business model is no longer viable?
- netr0ute 5y agoThat's one of the strategies behind the Tesla model.
- throwaway894345 5y agoOr lobby politicians for laws which entrench their position at the expense of wider society.
- jaywalk 5y agoIt's not even that, really. Older cars (for the most part) had nothing to update, so it's not like these updates are really taking anything away from the dealers that they were doing before. They are just mad that they aren't able to add a new revenue stream by being the only place to go to get software updates.
- Drunk_Engineer 5y agoOlder cars do have firmware, which may require updates.
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- josephcsible 5y agoIn a free market, that would be the case. But because of a bunch of laws similar to this proposed one, it's basically illegal for most automakers to not have dealers.
- kcb 5y agoWhenever people bring up how the big old automakers are going to eat Teslas lunch any day now, they leave out the dealership factor. It makes the big automakers uncompetitive regardless of how great their product is. Try to buy any of these new Ford EVs and be ready for a nightmare of sketchy pre-orders and dealer markups all while being treated like dirt while buying a $70k car.
- jjeaff 5y agoTo be fair, Tesla itself has quite a bit of sketchy pre-ordering and not exactly a great reputation for treating its customers that well after the sale.