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by dzhiurgis 187 days ago
> Don't even need an entertainment cluster, give me a place to put a tablet or a phone and just have a bluetooth speaker.

Illegal - backup camera is required. Speakers probably too for alerts. Also you are super naive if you think that's where actual cost is.

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Most of the cost is in development and prototyping that the company has to make up for, followed by battery as those have a set $/kwh price.

This is why the rest of the car has to be an already proven platform that is cheap to make.