It likely doesn’t need a live connection and just checks in occasionally, and if the designers were smart, the logic would be built to err on the side of human safety in the case of no-coms.
But of course that is not a guarantee.
Still, in all likelihood the vest has your subscription date stored in local memory and if you are out of coms for a month then likely you aren’t biking anywhere.
Imagine you are in an accident and the server go off and you get killed while paying for that?
Or sn accident in a tunnel, where there isn’t a connection.
It likely doesn’t need a live connection and just checks in occasionally, and if the designers were smart, the logic would be built to err on the side of human safety in the case of no-coms.
But of course that is not a guarantee.
Still, in all likelihood the vest has your subscription date stored in local memory and if you are out of coms for a month then likely you aren’t biking anywhere.