I don’t suppose I know the EU situation, but at least in the US, cellular towers are supposed to accept an emergency call regardless of anything like a SIM susbscription, so if the car doest uses a cellular modem to dial emergency ervices, the car wouldn’t necessarily actually need a subscription active.
Maybe it doesn’t work that way in EU, but it seems like it should be the case that a mandatory emergency call function shouldn’t carry a subscription burden.
The moment you spend the money putting in a cellular connection that can make a call (SOS) and be connected to a mic and speaker system, you start asking how can we recoup that cost.
We already have a backup screen mandated by law.
We can show maps on it and stream music from their favorite music service!
Most will have an active subscription even if you aren’t using it, because it’s cheaper to have basically a bulk subscription service than to administer single accounts.
Is it though?
I don’t suppose I know the EU situation, but at least in the US, cellular towers are supposed to accept an emergency call regardless of anything like a SIM susbscription, so if the car doest uses a cellular modem to dial emergency ervices, the car wouldn’t necessarily actually need a subscription active.
Maybe it doesn’t work that way in EU, but it seems like it should be the case that a mandatory emergency call function shouldn’t carry a subscription burden.
The moment you spend the money putting in a cellular connection that can make a call (SOS) and be connected to a mic and speaker system, you start asking how can we recoup that cost.
We already have a backup screen mandated by law.
We can show maps on it and stream music from their favorite music service!
You can put that extra stuff behind a paid sub.
Most will have an active subscription even if you aren’t using it, because it’s cheaper to have basically a bulk subscription service than to administer single accounts.