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Would you own a car that has an associated app for a phone or tablet? The app would do things like planning trips, showing mileage statistics, giving you verbo

Would you own a car that has an associated app for a phone or tablet? The app would do things like planning trips, showing mileage statistics, giving you verbose errors in case the vehicle has issues, and for an EV you could plan and control charging for off-peak times, etc. If you would like that, why wouldn't you like the same in the car itself? Those are not things you would need to use while driving, of course, but it would still be quite a bit nicer that going to "stats menu 001" "L" "2" "11" and viewing a number on some LCD readout...

the_snooze 3y ago
Cars have functional lives of 10+ years, and very often longer than that. The way nearly all car apps are implemented is that they depend on some remote backend. What you're describing sounds good on the surface, but car manufacturers have absolutely no incentive to keep that software up-to-date, functional, and secure for the functional life of the car. The LCD readout doesn't require long-term software maintenance, because it's entirely local and just works regardless of who's in charge at the car company.
- nottorp 3y ago
  > have absolutely no incentive to keep that software up-to-date, functional, and secure for the functional life of the car They do. It will just be free for the first 3 years, 20/month next 3 years... up to 500/month for collector's items :)