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by AlotOfReading 1161 days ago
A modern car is a network of tiny computers, at least dozens, sometimes up to 100+. You can stretch that number significantly if you want to count every IC with an embedded microprocessor in it.

All of that diversity will be managed by a relatively small number of people at any OEM. Standardization to a minimal set of OSes and hardware platforms is the only way to make the workload manageable and keep the dozens of application teams unblocked.