To me the primary value of OTA updates like Tesla’s is that the dash systems won’t become worthless in a few years. I don’t own a car myself, but it always grat

To me the primary value of OTA updates like Tesla’s is that the dash systems won’t become worthless in a few years. I don’t own a car myself, but it always grates me just how bad and outdated the dash systems in cars even just a handful of years old are when taking ubers or riding with friends. It’s generally not found acceptable when major features of any other expensive purchase are phoned-in at best, so why is it tolerated with cars? At minimum, I think car manufacturers should decide on a dash platform standard and stick to it for at least a decade, making it possible to continue to properly update and support existing cars for a reasonable amount of time. Tesla isn’t doing anything special, it’s just a plain old off the shelf ARM SoC running a touch-optimized Ubuntu variant. Surely Toyota, GM, etc could figure this out? Barring that, they could save money and exclude built in dash functionality all together in favor of CarPlay and Android Auto, but that could be problematic for customers who don’t use smartphones.