[btashton]

I would have agreed with you at one point, but most of the automotive companies are diving into this. They want less computers and would rather invest in hardware partitioning if needed.

BWM has said point blank all of the software in the car will be running Linux.

Adopting Linux on BMW - The Long Road to Integrate Linux as Mainline Platform - Helio Chissini de Castro, BMW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNr-XmWM-eM