[gambiting]

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say.

>>As soon as other shops can install 3rd-party parts

But....they can. Of course they can. What's more, both EU and US law protects the ability of 3rd parties to make replacement parts, and your ability as the consumer to fit those parts. The law goes so far as forbidding manufactuers from voiding your warranty due to fitting of non-OEM parts unless they can specifically prove that the part that you fitted caused problems.

>>you wind up with cars that, for example, get better performance by violating emissions standards except when they're actively being tested.

Again, that's already a thing and has been a thing since forever. Modding is extremely popular in some circles. Just like flashing your phone with custom FW is popular in certain circles too, but that doesn't mean that once it's allowed everyone and their grandma will suddenly run some HAXXOR build of iOS.

[earhart]

It was, in hindsight, a lame attempt at a joke, based on Volkswagen's history with skirting emissions controls.

More seriously, it's hard to know what all's installed on your phone, and what all it's doing; car parts are intrinsically sandboxed.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when always-connected self-driving cars have enough compute power to run self-driving systems and people are free to install random apps without great security (because car manufacturers seem to be awful at that). I'm predicting cutesy weather apps that quietly mine crypto all night long...

[saagarjha]

A bad car part can absolutely cause your car to crash, much more than a malicious app on iOS, which may not even be able to access your photos or messages.

[zepto]

A malicious app on iOS can pose as something it’s not, and ask for your mom’s credit card number.

[gambiting]

So can a website, these sort of hypotheticals just seem like pure scaremongering.

[zepto]

Yes, definitely so can a website.

The whole point of Apps is that they are reviewed and therefore are safer than random stuff on the web.

It’s would be scaremongering if these kinds of threat were hypothetical, but of they are pretty widely known.

[zepto]

It’s true that EU and US law protect the ability of 3rd parties to make replacement car parts.

But.. the law also holds those 3rd parties responsible for damage caused by failures of their parts.

No such protection exists for software.

Let’s start with some working legal privacy and fraud protections for software.

Then we can compare software to cars.

Until then, let people buy into a walled garden if they want to.