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I don't know if automotive is that resource and money constrained. People will spend tens of thousands on upgrades if they see the value, and there's plenty of

• menaerus 2y ago
  Generally speaking, hardware found in commercial vehicles is very cheap and therefore constrained - e.g. slow CPUs and slow memory, low amount of memory, limited (flash) storage, and technology is generally lagging behind - you would for example still be able to find higher-end cars that had been produced recently that are unable to stream the content from a smartphone to an infotainment system without using a USB cable. This is a feature we had elsewhere for at least a decade. There are other such examples but when compared to the commodity smartphone hardware, automotive hardware is lagging in many respects. Both BMW and Mercedes-Benz produce ~2.5M vehicles/year so I guess when you need to scale your production out to such quantities, saving even a few cents per component means a noticeable margin. Competition today is bigger than ever with Chinese companies entering the market, especially for European car makers, so I envision that cutting costs will become even more important than it was before.