We're Doomed, Part 4 Million

[FoxtArt]

By the time it goes into effect all new cars would be level 5 anyway, and that'll probably be mandated.

Meanwhile, I'll still be driving my much-older, much-more reliable vehicles.

With all the new crap they keep throwing into vehicles (including that), even if each component is thoroughly tested and ultra reliable, there's still so many points of failure that they aren't going to be 200k cars in the future.

Now, an electric truck with a bare bones ECU, manual windows and locks, replaceable double DIN radio, I'd buy that. Problem is nobody will ever make it. Every electric vehicle has so much unnecessary proprietary hardware and especially software in it that while there will be examples that are maintained for decades, the cost for an average person to do that will be outrageously high, as the replacement screens will be hard enough, but what about fixing/replacing/patching the original software when they reach "EOS". It'll be like trying to drive a car around today that depends on internet-connected Windows 95, using the original netscape browser to reach websites that ceased to exist 15 years ago.

ETA: I do suspect eventually they will have kits to convert ICE engines into electric in old vehicles. I probably will do that. It will be bare bones and reliable in that capacity.