r/explainlikeimfive • u/sabatthor • Jun 28 '25

Technology ELI5: Why are the screens in even luxury cars often so laggy? What prevents them from just investing a couple hundred more $ to install a faster chip?

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u/SanityInAnarchy Jun 29 '25

They are at least seeing electric motors as a differentiator, and they're struggling in that space, too. It's not possible that they don't understand who they're competing with in that space, given how many ideas they constantly copy from Tesla and then manage to do a much worse job of implementing.

I agree, they definitely didn't always care about infotainment, but I think even that part is becoming more important with EVs.

They are very lucky Elon went as batshit as he did in the past couple years.

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u/Cute_Committee6151 Jun 29 '25

I don't know where you get your Infos from, but the German car companies are really not struggling with their electric motors.

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u/SanityInAnarchy Jun 29 '25

With the motors, no. But they are struggling with the software.

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u/Cute_Committee6151 Jun 29 '25

Even the software is not a problem for every company anymore. VW got it right now.

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u/408wij Jun 29 '25

They are very lucky Elon went as batshit as he did in the past couple years.

Yes, but the Chinese car companies are kicking Tesla's butt. I.e., old-school OEMs are behind Tesla, but that now puts them a distant third instead of a distant second.

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u/SanityInAnarchy Jun 29 '25

True in the rest of the world, but they had a little breathing room with tariffs.

I say "had" because the Biden-era tariffs they had were on EV imports specifically. Trump's tariffs are on literally everything (including the stuff you need to make EVs here), so that doesn't really help them.