Hoping many European Union people, all of us, keep pushing for these to happen too by adding these onto what we want:
- Making open source be one of the primary objectives across the whole EU
- Mandating phones to have higher storage so 2-8+TB
- Mandating that Apple needs to allow open-source apps, and being able to change OS fully on Apple Devices. So not being locked down in every way. Same for Android with their upcoming action to lock it down. Allowing people to put Linux on their devices
- Having affordable online education available for people around the world to make use of. Can just be the basics up to uni. Having it be where the education is able to be used by the student in their own and neighboring countries only.
- Making Internet Service Providers, and the infrastructure be owned by the people through cooperation’s, etc be more commonplace
- Making JavaScript be owned by the people and fully open-sourced in Europe (Not trademarked, and kept locked down. This is holding the Web back a lot)
- Making it where Car Manufacturers need to give documentation and have the software be fully open-sourced so people can change/modify the CarOS, and make sure it is not tampered with at all by anybody
- Videogames have to work offline (Ubisoft/EA/Etc for example)
- Videogames having to offer the ability to run community-run servers when the game shuts down
Things get better when we all collectively get things done. We will get to what we all want that are beneficial to all European Union people!!
Right, the eCall black box is a perfect example of how this other stuff could be implemented, at least according to my layman understanding. There is a set of standardized minimum functionality and a set of optional functionality. All related to telematics control. There could be a requirement that manufacturers use a clear standardized interface for entertainment/comfort and a clear separation between those and critical functions, so that those could be handled by user replaceable software/hardware. Feels like that would be a step up from what we have now, where I’ve been in a modern car (2024 BYD) and connecting androidauto caused the entertainment computer to crash and the dashboard to go blank for about 60 seconds while I was driving down the highway. I can understand including a display buffer to push some entertainment content onto the dashboard, but there should be separation.
Next step after all this would be to ask what parts of this really benefit from being proprietary. Maybe if we had better standards between components we would get better repairability.