One thing I haven't seen anyone discuss is phone interfaces. BMW/Jaguar were one company invested in the old Webinos IoT efforts that I personally thought were

One thing I haven't seen anyone discuss is phone interfaces. BMW/Jaguar were one company invested in the old Webinos IoT efforts that I personally thought were super super on point, which was a nice standards based system, that respected personal data. I kind of imagine anyone in the car having a touchscreen interface if they want it: just pull out your phone. We don't expect a good parity interface, but projects like Webinos or, heck, the Jeep QNX-OS hack, show great things are possible. The Jeep hack, fwiw looked amazing: a beautiful fantastic DBus interface for all the cars systems. I remain in love with the idea of hacking one's own car & building the fantastic interface the car maker are unable to build (and which would admittedly likely not suit all users; sad that software has so massified, must serve so so many, even though the consumers interest/abilities are not alike). Another X factor I want to throw out there: personally I really like to have the cabin dimmed way down at night. I don't end up in a lot of cars, but in my limited experience, I've never seen a touchscreen that comes anywhere close to being able to dim down adequately. So one of the first things I do in a car typically is figure out how to turn the display off. Even though I have a lot of touchscreen disastisfaction.