Welcome back to eB News Daily. Welcome to a bonus podcast. A podcast that I've titled

The Promise and Perils of Software Defined Vehicles, we're going to get into what that

really means. The Volvo EX90, their new flagship finally arrived with some missing features,

and that's a problem for a brand that's known for safety because some of those missing features

are safety features. And the reason is they've pushed as far forward as quick as they can

with innovation, with being a software-defined vehicle. We'll get into that in a minute. But does it

risk their hard-earned reputation? Have they gambled it all on bringing this vehicle to market sooner than

they should have done before it was ready? Or will the early buyers be happy to wait for those

updates to come and for their vehicles to be complete? We'll dig into all of those issues today.

And at the end of the podcast, I'll let you know how you can get in contact with me by the

Patreon platform, even for free,

haven't got to be a paid up member for that, to carry on this discussion. So I'd like to hear

your thoughts on it, and how it relates to startups like Tesla, Rivian, Lucid, and the established

OEMs as well. Well, Volvo is the Swedish brand with a legacy that's connected to the evolution

of automotive safety. They have built

this through doing the hard yards. Over the years, Volvo has consistently pushed the envelope

in terms of design, engineering and technology. So why risk it? Well, Volvo's more recent history

for you might be the Boxy 200 series going touring car racing with an

850 estate wagon or just being the first almost automaker to go 100% electric. That was the

promise. They went first out of all the biggest established carmakers. And the Volvo history

for innovation, as I mentioned, runs deep like the three-point safety seatbelt in 1959, actually, which some say has

saved over a million lives. The laminated windscreen, a shatterproof glass. It's unthinkable

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