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Ehh.... Audi's functions on demand does explicitly say that "the hardware for the functions that can be activated subsequently is installed in all vehicles at t
by brigade 5y ago
Ehh.... Audi's functions on demand does explicitly say that "the hardware for the functions that can be activated subsequently is installed in all vehicles at the factory" to reduce production costs [1], and the e-tron is one of the vehicles they're pushing this hard in.
According to the reddit poster, the Denmark e-tron doesn't come with multizone climate standard, unlike most of Europe. And the function on demand store doesn't appear to have rolled out to Denmark yet, and climate zones doesn't appear to be one of the functions you can buy elsewhere (because it's standard outside of Denmark?) So it is literally true that it's not a post-sale option/paywall right now.
But I strongly suspect that whatever hardware is needed is actually there and that this specific car will get the option to purchase the usage of it in the future once the store is rolled out to Denmark.
[1] https://www.audi.com/en/company/sustainability/core-topics/products-and-services/audi-functions-on-demand.html https://www.audi.com/en/company/sustainability/core-topics/p...
- Linosaurus 5y agoThat sounds plausible. So if they want to upsell this feature in the future, the actual cost of installing the physical button (five minutes in a workshop) would dwarf the cost to install the hardware (0, already there). And so they decided to apply asshole interface design towards these customers. That's not a great solution.
- sandermvanvliet 5y ago“Someone spent time to make it shit” It, unfortunately, applies to a ton of situations where instead of doing the simple, not asshole kind of thing, they chose to make the thing annoying and/or hostile