mmmm taste that free market. im sure that consumer will use their money to buy elsewhere, thereby telling volkswagon exactly how that behavior will be tolerated!
yep. the invisible hand of the market will surely correct for this and everything will become just and good… as long as pesky regulations don’t stick their noses in it…
I see. A cop can call up VW and get your car’s location whenever they want, even if you’ve cancelled any sort of tracking service.
If the owner of the car is consenting to have it tracked, I don’t see the problem here. Why do you make it sound like the police overreached?
My comment isn’t specific to this incident.
VW gave all owners access to free car-net for 5 years because of this screw up.
Didn’t they help the nazis too? It never stops with those guys
Help the Nazis? Volkswagen was literally started by the Nazis.
True but also entirely irrelevant, this isn’t some unusually nefarious plot or racist agenda at work.
Just plain old capitalism, blind greed over everything. This could have been literally any manufacturer and it would have been neither a surprise nor made a difference
what the fuck
This is the best summary I could come up with:
According to a Chicago Sun-Times article, “the Car-Net trial period had ended, and a representative wanted $150 to restart the service and locate the SUV.”
The detective pleaded, explaining the “extremely exigent circumstance,” but the representative didn’t budge, saying it was company policy, sheriff’s office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli said Friday.
"Volkswagen has a procedure in place with a third-party provider for Car-Net Support Services involving emergency requests from law enforcement.
A man wearing a mask got out of the BMW “and struggled to get into the victim’s Volkswagen, as she tried to keep her 2-year-old son safe,” the sheriff’s office said.
The perpetrators fled, and the person who called 911 “rescued the child from the parking lot” before the boy could wander onto the busy roadway.
When contacted by Ars today, Covelli said the sheriff’s office is still searching for the BMW and believes the car is still in the area.
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