Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates?
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Phones are supported well beyond their average ownership lifetime. In stark contrast, automakers are struggling to work out how long their “smartphones on wheels” can be kept on the road.
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Phones are supported well beyond their average ownership lifetime.

Are they?

Supported in the sense that “We will update your device and deliberately slow it, break it, or brick it because fuck you.”

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