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The development lifecyle of vehicles used to be much longer than consumer electronics and software. It's still longer, but they're improving.


Fortunately ubiquitous smartphones (together with systems like CarPlay) make at least entertainment and nav systems more modular and less locked in to both development lifecycles and operational lifetimes. I never use my car's base-level entertainment system except to plug in my iPhone output and it doesn't have a factory nav system.

The next issue is/will be assistive driving systems which will become more sophisticated and common--perhaps up to even full self-driving under some conditions. We'll probably reach a point where cars that are otherwise perfectly operational will lack what are considered table-stakes (or even legally required) convenience/safety systems in new vehicles.




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