[VLM]

The car has to be scrapped when the UI hardware fails.

You can live a LONG time without a working ... radio tuning knob, if the other 99.9% of the controls work. Or if the right passenger door lock button fails, really who cares. But when the central control of the entire car fails, its scrap.

Very profitable for the manufacturer.

[natebc]

Occurs to me that this is likely one of the reasons car manufacturer warranties have really gone into the crapper.