The amount of safety features you require alone would not allow this. To be compliant you need to move all your models to a number of safety features. In addit

The amount of safety features you require alone would not allow this. To be compliant you need to move all your models to a number of safety features. In addition, you need to actually meet fuel standards, and that alone requires a whole lots of sensors. And people actually 'shocking' want to have advanced features, and the ability to link the car with the phone. The simple reality is people wouldn't buy a low tech car you describe. Seriously, people are not spending 30-50k on a car that can not play music from your phone. If you completely redesign the product, maybe you could reduce the number but that is effort that is actually far larger the problems with supply. And if you started to redesign the product now, you would almost certainty use more chips anyways because the requirements are going up, not down.