How Premium Manufacturers can Survive the Age of Disposable Software

Modern cars are no longer merely machines. They are software platforms with wheels, batteries, cameras, processors and update cycles. That changes the economics of premium ownership. If a car’s digital core becomes obsolete long before its body, engine or chassis, permanence becomes theatre. The premium car of the future must therefore be designed not only to endure, but to be upgraded.

The Tesla FSD Paradox

Tesla may be close to a genuine breakthrough in supervised autonomous driving in Europe, and that deserves real recognition. Its vision-based system looks astonishingly capable in complex traffic. But that progress also makes Tesla’s everyday stupidity even funnier. When a car can seemingly understand cyclists, pedestrians and chaos, yet still fails at a blatantly obvious route, admiration quickly turns into disbelief.