> But you can't launch a car without airbags. What complexity can the software folks eliminate and still have a viable product? This is a very insightful comme

> But you can't launch a car without airbags. What complexity can the software folks eliminate and still have a viable product? This is a very insightful comment. Take as an example the recent 1.0L three-cylindre 120hp Ecoboost petrol engine by Ford. It's so small the entire thing fully assembled fits onto an A4 sheet of paper. It's not actually a very big part of the car. Meanwhile, the Ford Fiesta which this goes into has increased its total weight by almost 50% since 1980. Factoring in weight reductions in the engine, that's 350+ kg worth of increased safety and comfort, none of which is particularly simple engineering, and none of which can be eliminated in a modern electric car.