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Originally Posted by gsobol
BMW is not financially incentivized to give things "for free" via OTA updates. So chances are that you won't see it activated via OTA. We are still waiting on BMW to activate no-dazzle feature on current X7s in USA, even though the hardware is installed and the feature was just coded out and should have been a no-brainer to just code it in via OTA. Especially since some of us already have done the necessary coding on our own to activate this feature.
* Disclaimer - Past results do not guarantee future performance :-)
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There is also legal liability. I spoke to an attorney friend and he said that basically BMW has to follow laws/regulations in place for the model year the car was built. They legally cannot change something in a car that was built a year, two or three ago that had a different regulation in place at the time it was built. Unless the government adds something in to a new regulation that requires or allows the mfg to go back and change it.
So don't hold your breath expecting BMW to send an OTA that enables the anti-dazzle headlights on our existing cars.