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ok, it's not directly vespa related but ...

VW wouldn't help locate car with abducted child because GPS subscription expired
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/vw-wouldnt-help-locate-car-with-abducted-child-because-gps-subscription-expired/
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Doesn't surprise me at all. Volkswagen is an extremely arrogant company. They pretty much think they rule the world on their own terms, as we've all seen with the diesel scandal a couple of years ago.

And true, at least around here, people keep buying their rubbish anyway.
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Mopmop wrote:
Doesn't surprise me at all. Volkswagen is an extremely arrogant company. They pretty much think they rule the world on their own terms, as we've all seen with the diesel scandal a couple of years ago.

And true, at least around here, people keep buying their rubbish anyway.
and unsurprisingly they have backed flipped like so many shitty companies do when publicly shamed.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/vw-says-sorry-for-child-carjacking-fiasco-makes-safety-service-free/
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