The economies of scale that a manufacturer would get from cranking out hundreds of thousands of the same home a year are "real". There are a lot of reasons the

The economies of scale that a manufacturer would get from cranking out hundreds of thousands of the same home a year are "real". There are a lot of reasons the market doesn't support such a business though. The smarthome market is just not in the same league as cars when it comes to an subsidizing technological development. There is no Formula 1 for housing.