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I’ve had the experience of driving my car, a chinese EV, while it was having a full software outage due to a maintenance mistake, and it drove just fine.

There are different layers of systems, driving and safety are not tied to the infotainment stack or anything cloud-based. Pretty sure there are industry standards that mandate this.

To answer the headline: it becomes everyone’s dream EV, a plain car without any bullshit. It won’t fail to start because of missing connectivity. The real problem is not having hardware support.