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Re:Chevrolet to offer unlimited data plan with cars by caleblloyd on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:56PM (#13778121)
Probably because they would have to support tens of models and tens of millions of vehicles. Big car companies contract their head units out per body style, so one company may design the 2008-2012 head units and another 2013-2016. They likely have wildly different sensors, firmware update formats, etc.

Bigger car companies prefer stability over features and don't design everything in-house like Tesla. Their shareholders also expect them to turn profits, which leads to risk adversion and slower product cycles.

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Re:Chevrolet to offer unlimited data plan with cars by lucaspiller on Friday March 03, 2017 @12:45AM (#13780996)
The head units can also be vastly different by region - which doesn't really make much sense to me. Sure in US you have satellite radio which is unheard of elsewhere, but that's about it. I have a 2010 Prius and the US model has a DVD for navigation, where as the EU model has a HDD and needs to go to a dealer for €€€ updates.
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