> More software = more control by everyone else except you. Manufacturers. Governments.

Also more unreliability, because software engineers often aren't real engineers.

> The other issue is support. So many models stop getting updates after 5 years. So, if there is a bug in that big screen, you have to live with it for the rest of the car's life.

The problem here is (probably) the internet, which gives management an excuse to slack on QA. If there was no chance to ever update the software, they'd probably do a better job. But now with the internet, they can say they'll just fix it in a patch later, but then never actually get around to doing that.

There ought to be a law that says car software may only be shipped on console-style non-flash ROM carts.