> but the reality is that while we use smartphones every day, utilisation of privately owned vehicles is only 5 per cent, And are used far less than car infota

> but the reality is that while we use smartphones every day, utilisation of privately owned vehicles is only 5 per cent, And are used far less than car infotainment, by almost all of those folks. It'd be better for everyone if there was some kind of modular, competitive ecosystem of infotainment OSes, but we don't even have that on phones (somehow the PC alone is the one neutral device). Like, folks should be able to plug in a Chromecast dongle, that can then manage the car's subsystems, while outputting some DisplayPort screens. Trying to keep sophisticated consumer electronics devices running & up to date & powering these expensive expensive platforms satisfactorily is a game we should want car makers out of. Car makers should want out of it. Having the product & it's whole lifecycle gated on the computer awful bedeviling coupling.