Because they need updates to fix security holes in the network stack that is required for doing the updates, don't you know? And of course also to facilitate al

Because they need updates to fix security holes in the network stack that is required for doing the updates, don't you know? And of course also to facilitate all that juicy surveillance backhaul and anti-ownership decommodification. What we've needed the whole time is mandated open standards and open documentation for both the local buses and any WAN communications. There's really no reason that center console units from cars aren't widely interchangeable with each other, rather than being specific even down to the model year. But instead, companies use software complexity as a hook to perform wealth extraction, and then respond to any public pushback by marketing the extractionary dynamic as "innovation" and trumpeting the revenue numbers as if they represent legitimate economic activity.