Comment by jiaosdjf

"How has the automotive industry adapted to decades of computing best practices?"

- Head units connected to CAN bus with bluetooth vulnerabilities allowing attacker to remotely activate locks and windows and sometimes even driving controls

- Unsecured CAN bus cables everywhere allowing cars to be stolen through headlights and behind mud guard flaps

- Keyless entry basically a shit show of faraday pouches

- OBD port allowing thieves to clone a full key in seconds

- Even cars in decent neighbourhoods have to use steering locks

Sorry but this is a fucking joke and the automotive industry is cancer.

At least Tesla actually bothers with user updates and production improvements, most other manufacturers just shit out the same model 5 years in a row with an extra cup holder and USB port (probably rootable) if you're lucky. That said, Tesla's insistence that everything be done by touch screen is dog shit.

All this and still for 99% of cars my iPhone stuck to the dashboard provides better maps and entertainment and yet they can't even make a fucking phone holder standard, not even a fucking mounting point so I don't have to block an air vent.