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Re:Some new BMWs won't have touchscreens thanks to chip shor... by q-big on Saturday November 06, 2021 @09:09AM (#29129918)
> Unfortunately I think it's more driven by cost motivations. As noted in the Mk8 VW GTI review [1], the interfaces are often straight up awful, this being a particularly bad design.

The car producer could save even more money if they released the non-security critical user-facing parts of the software as open source and let car enthusiasts fix the bad user interface.

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Re:Some new BMWs won't have touchscreens thanks to chip shor... by DavidPeiffer on Saturday November 06, 2021 @09:25AM (#29130006)
I'd be good with that. I casually started looking at adding openstreetmaps in place of my outdated maps on my 2009 CR-V. From what I can tell, it's a proprietary system with proprietary formats. It doesn't look like it'll work, but I'd love to achieve it.
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