There are few phrases in the modern lexicon more accursed than “software-based car,” and yet, this is how the failed EV maker Fisker billed its products, which retailed for $40–70k in the few short years before the company collapsed, shut down its servers, and degraded all those “software-based cars”:
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Fisker billed itself as a “capital light” manufacturer, meaning that it didn’t particularly make anything — rather, it “designed” cars that other companies built, allowing Fisker to focus on “experience,” which is where the “software-based car” comes in. Virtually every subsystem in a Fisker car needs (or rather, needed) to periodically…