Comment Re:No change, in other words (Score 2) 445
. . . [Y]ou might end up driving a car with a fancy in-dash computer system that's completely useless for much of the time you own it.
My first car had an AM radio, but I wanted FM, so I bought an FM converter for it. Car #3 had an AM/FM radio, but I wanted a cassette player, so I ended up buying and installing a radio with a cassette player in it. Car #4 didn't have a CD player, and I remedied that with a portable CD player and an adapter that slipped into the factory-installed cassette player. The current car has a radio with CD player and auxiliary input jack and Bluetooth, but I'm pretty sure it will be obsolete by the time I get rid of it.
Why would onboard computers be any different?
Because they are far, far less standardized and more integrated into the systems of the car itself than tradition stereo DIN head units.