What is your basis for this? This sounds like rubbish. I would imagine the car would function as well as any other manufactuter who runs their own entertainment system - some hosted features might fail, but the car itself will continue to run fine.
You ever get software updates for legacy software? Not really right? The term is abandonware. In the video game market what they do is hand off the dead games to some Chinese company that milks a few more DLCs/cashshops out of it (this re-release is effectively a pump and dump IPO). Then they pack it up and shut the game down.
The timeline would like this for a Tesla owner:
- Tesla goes bankrupt
- Some Chinese company takes up the upkeep of the software
- They introduce ads similar to Jeep
- No core functionality or QoL improvements are made
- Abandonware, no real software updates
- Your car runs fine, but you paid for a car with a computer in it, and the business basically repossessed the computer part of it. So, if that's possible, it's better to avoid.
If key functionality changes, I have a right to refund under Austalian consumer law. If the new owners refused to comply, they'd end up being barred from trading in Australia.
Regardless - even in this fairly far fetched reality - as you said the "car runs fine", but the GO was refering to the car "ceasing to function".
I don’t need updates, so step three is where I disconnect the car and keep driving it like that. There haven’t been any significant updates to the software in the past couple of years anyway, outside of FSD.
