We're already doing that: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/running-containers-cars

That's just Podman.

F-16 aircraft is doing it already: https://thenewstack.io/how-the-u-s-air-force-deployed-kubern...

The moment where I had to scroll up to see if this was posted on 1st of April.

Honestly you might be surprised how similar to a small homelab a modern/near future day vehicle really is.

Source: currently working at VWAG.

Yipp. It's obviously cool to swap out a 5GB pod to get three more vehicle signals...

What's a small homelab?

The start of a bigger and more expensive homelab.

Ain't it the truth

a small tcp/IP ethernet network with some microcontroller devices which are attached with a simpler serial bus like usb.

Kollege, I can't agree with that. I feel you are talking about middle to far future :)

the id.X series host a number of arm based embedded Linux servers on hypervisors, from the get go (id.3)

so one of us has a temporal anomaly going on

I went through the list of open source licences in my VW ID and was pleasantly surprised that bash-completion is included. So when I gain shell in my car, I should be able to use tab completion! These lists are often quite interesting.