Car safety regulations in quite a few places will require you to fully recertify a car even if you changed a stereo in it. Some place limitations on safety cri

Car safety regulations in quite a few places will require you to fully recertify a car even if you changed a stereo in it. Some place limitations on safety critical electronics like ABS specifically requiring any modification to it being treated as a new car model for legal purposes. Such laws are predatory, but laws they are But even if they did find cheaper substitutes, it's not the more advanced chips which are in the most acute shortage, but really old ones, which were kept in production for decades specifically because of car industry's requirements.