[JohnBooty]

     In my mind this has been largely solved for the 
     past few years with Android Auto / Carplay. 

I mean, yeah -- absolutely. For all the reasons you say.

But auto companies like Tesla and GM are now working hard to unsolve it because there's no profit in it for them. They want to control the experience and extract sweet, sweet subscription revenue. So, I'm not sure how "solved" it is.