[gorkish]

I had one of the most popular published projects on mp3car.com back in the heyday. It actually got me into a few strange meetings with companies that were actually building this stuff, like Clarion. I had literally designed, built, and installed a superior product to what they shipped as a one-off for fun in 3 months, but to them I was just a token enthusiast.

The vocabulary that these people started throwing out was absolute nonsense. It was pretty evident that "vehicle informatics" was fucked the second someone said those words out loud. And here we are more than 20 years later and still no closer to getting it right. Despite being seemingly well regarded, even Tesla's in car systems are just awful. And it's more impossible than ever to fix, modify, or replace on your own.