Perhaps a Lot of Customers Don't Want These 'Modern' Cars
EARLIER this month we published "The Problem Isn't That New Cars Use Electricity But That They Use Too Many Bits of Electronics" - an article that explains why supposedly "modern" cars are in many ways worse than old ones.
Perhaps not too shockingly, sales of new cars slowed down considerably (weak economy contributes to this).
"I posit that it is the surveillance and problems from the closed source and closed APIs which potential customers are rejecting," a reader told us. "The European automotive industry's slowdown has affected the growth of the auto engineering business for top software service providers in the first half of FY25," this new article ("EU auto biz slump throws IT’s growth plans off the track") says. "The European regulatory push toward electric vehicles (EVs), which have lower margins, coupled with intense price competition from China, has dampened new car demand..."
Maybe make cars that the customers actually want rather than try to foist upon them so-called "smartphones on wheels" that are difficult and expensive to repair, error-prone, and privacy-infringing (among other issues). █