yes, exactly, that's the fliplside of it. the business loves GPL free embedded, gpl-3 was created to protect our freedom, the right to repair and modify, as far as GPL components are concerned. it was created as response to Tivo, who locked in their embedded system (a TV iirc).

the trend to give software mit or bsd licenses instead ead of GPL is concerning.

I wouldn't have any confidence on a car which invokes coreutils in any manner. Too much surface area for embedded systems.

Car manufacturers really really hate GPLv3 and the requirement that users need to be able to change the code.

They claim it is for compliance but it's well known that user modifications to cars are no longer the responsibility of the car company. I think it's more on principle than any real legal concern.