It's stupid, but so is anybody buying a luxury car in the first place unless they have millions and millions of dollars to burn on stupid shit to satisfy their

It's stupid, but so is anybody buying a luxury car in the first place unless they have millions and millions of dollars to burn on stupid shit to satisfy their own vanity and other frivolous tendencies. I have much stronger feelings about general right-to-repair (which crap like this tends to obstruct, so I'm definitely against it in that sense) and speculative worlds down the slippery slope where actual safety is compromised if you don't pay an additional subscription (just $60/mo to enable your side curtain airbags!). But you won't see me crying over conspicuous wealth-signalers wasting their money on crap—they're going to do that anyway, with or without Mercedes' help. And faster cars are more deadly cars, so locking this functionality behind a paywall may actually save lives (though the real, sane solution would be to regulate excessively fast/massive/etc. personal vehicles off public roadways).