My only problem with all the tech is cars these days is that within a year or two they're out of date.
Proof that they've become nothing more than rolling cell phones, eh?
Someday, maybe, we'll see more modularity in the electronics and safety suites. That would require forethought--but imagine being able to go in with a mechanically nice 4 year old car and upgrade the electronics to modern levels.
I mean, even offering a newer Android Auto/Apple CarPlay would be of benefit. You just know at some point those will stop working with later versions of the apps as the phones move forward.
I remember back in the late 90s when GM offered OnStar, and their partner was Verizon. Cellular systems were analog back then. Then one day Verizon said, "we're moving to all digital". Bam. That was it. Suddenly, all those older GM cars with analog cell interfaces for OnStar found themselves unable to use the service.
This made the news because a whole bunch of one-year-old Cadillacs were stuck with the older analog tech, and no way for GM to upgrade them to the new digital cell system.
That was insane. Such a system should be modular to the point of letting me, the owner, buy a new module from the dealer to handle newer cellular technologies. Shoot, T-Mobile alone is busy ramping things up hugely fast. If you're buying a new phone every year or two, or are on their "Jump" plans to swap out phones frequently, that's fine. But built in business systems are screwed when things go at that pace.
VW has their Car-Net, which is a Verizon-provided product on the back end. Not only does it not offer much in the way of features and value today, but I just don't trust Verizon. Imagine the look on my face when I hit the "i" button in my overhead to turn on the 6 month trial of Car-Net--and the woman tried her hardest to get me to sign up for 60 months for $851 plus tax, $915 total. !!!! For something that probably won't be useful 2 years from now as cellular tech changes, let alone how bad the product itself is overall.