> The average consumer is completely infatuated with the idea of their car being a doom scrolling device, so we get dragged further into hell.

bollocks. all available research suggests the average person strongly prefers manual controls and buttons and is not into touchscreens and the like.

and none of those discussions precludes auto manufacturers from just putting mics in the car -- even with 95% old school buttons they could just wire it up to listen to you and pipe it out to a tiny LTE transmitter.