The general problem of devices people depend on suddenly expiring for (unjustified or justified) reasons is getting annoying on a society-wide level (and will g

The general problem of devices people depend on suddenly expiring for (unjustified or justified) reasons is getting annoying on a society-wide level (and will get worse unless reined-in). It's most visibly terrible and abusive in emergency/life-threatening situation but naturally people hate it all the time. The thing is that with emergency situations, the company will logically have overrides available - but because you'll have people often wanting to use "emergency" to get out from the ordinary problem of an expired car/device, the companies will make it hard to claim an emergency, hence some emergencies won't get caught. And with the modern company organized on plausible deniability, those uncaught emergencies will look like "human error". And so the sycophants can say "nothing to see here, move on folks..."