Much can be said about car features, but the reality is the buyers of cars are usually not the last owners; if you buy a new car every five/ten years, you don’t care about issues in the fifteenth year.
Think sunroof leaks, broken power windows, etc. So many luxury features that are more fragile than the simple equivalent, but the buyers don’t care because those problems only affect very used cars.
My worry is actually that we're building cars that won't be on the road at all in 10 or 15 years.
The cost of all the connected features, automatic braking systems, etc add up fast. Insurance costs have increased so much in the last decade partly because a simple fender bender can now cost thousands by the time sensors are all replaced.
It honestly feels like another situation where good intentions of optimizing new vehicles for energy efficiency, safety, etc end up doing more harm then good if we're concerned with environmental impact. The cost of producing and delivering a new vehicle is huge, if they can't stay on the road for more than say 15 years we're just committing to an endless loop of replacing every car on the road more quickly.
> if they can't stay on the road for more than say 15 years we're just committing to an endless loop of replacing every car on the road more quickly
Of course that is the desired outcome by EV manufacturers - it's the dream scenario - along with locked down, non-replaceable and impossible to buy batteries [0] (or seemingly possible to buy - just prohibitively expensive)
Unfortunately people with their "after me, the deluge" attitude (as already displayed in this thread) are are unable to prevent this scenario from becoming reality.
Think sunroof leaks, broken power windows, etc. So many luxury features that are more fragile than the simple equivalent, but the buyers don’t care because those problems only affect very used cars.
The connected stuff will be the same.