Look at aftermarket MMI boxes. They do this for $150. (Screen and controls not included because they use the factory ones.)
Someone should tell an automobile manufacturer. It’d save them ~ $1B.
Someone should tell an automobile manufacturer. It’d save them ~ $1B.
The entire thing is $150, which is nothing compared to the rest of the warranty.
If regulatory compliance for a car stereo actually costs $1B in the US, then that seems like a bigger issue than “unfair” competition from China, and I’d like one of their $10K EVs, please.
No wonder these clowns still can't put together a car radio that works reliably, let alone an automotive interconnect system; they're still using the term "multimedia." Welcome to CD-ROMs, circa 1994.
It think it’s a standard for “events happen on cam bus”, “there is a not-hdmi display in the dashboard”, and “there are analog amplified audio out jacks for the speakers”.
From the consumer end, it looks remarkably sane. Like “there’s a dev kit for the computer on github” levels of sane.