It appears in 2019 over 50% of vehicles recalls were due to electronics: https://www.stout.com/en/news/stouts-2020-automotive-defect-recall-report-compass-insi

It appears in 2019 over 50% of vehicles recalls were due to electronics: https://www.stout.com/en/news/stouts-2020-automotive-defect-recall-report-compass-insight-navigating-uncertainty https://www.stout.com/en/news/stouts-2020-automotive-defect-... There were more or less as many cars recalled in the USA in the 2010s decade than there are human beings residing in the USA: https://www.statista.com/statistics/541703/united-states-vehicle-recalls/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/541703/united-states-veh... I agree with you an electronic failure can be easy to fix. Or it can be okay not to fix, for example i don't care if my central car computer can't control the opening/closing of my windows. The problem is, are manufacturers making it easy/cheap to fix? And are they making it so a tiny fault in a subsystem crashes the entire car to a halt? The answers are, in my humble opinion, no and yes respectively.