That’s what they do except for the opt in part.

It works well on freeways. I still don’t use it much on city streets except for the occasional shits and giggles. It has issues on non-divided highways and refuses to drive at my set speed limit.

Just transfer ownership to the company that has the tools and lease it back.

Who else are they selling this too?

The service whose lifetime is over is the “lifetime price lock”.

Lifetime of the service not of the human paying for it. 😊

Model 3 had a big refresh this year (2024).

Just say ‘no thank you’

I had to laugh when I got banned from a sub because I used redact.

I saw an ad for a phone that folds in quarters

Depends on how big the car is.

I absolutely would download a car.

The set number of renewals locks in the price and generally also allows the customer to not renew if that is their desire.

Seeing as my car works when an internet connection is not available it will work. The bigger issue is charging networks. If Tesla went belly up, then charging on their network (L2 chargers should be fine unless they configured to not be free) would be dicey.