[rapsin4]

How will the app talk the car without a cloud service? Are you technical?

[advisedwang]

If you can swap out the 2G module for a 3G module, then the company has lost it's excuse for shutting down it's cloud. Companies that make a car that consumers expect to last 20 years should operate the cloud for the lifetime of the car.

[crtasm]

Plenty of apps let you connect directly to things, why wouldn't this be possible?

[sleepybrett]

Because they didn't build it that way. I worked you a company that wrote software for connected cars like this. Universally those platforms were the absolute worst. Underpowered, unreliable and sold for far to much.