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There is another problem with this idea. TIVO can purchase a chip designed to run their software can manufacture the product and ship it to a 10,000 stores around the country, and sell it on Amazon.com The distribution cost of a product using a microchip is fairly small % of the total cost of the product.
Yet with something like a car, you need a much greater infrastructure to sell it. Dealerships, or if not dealership delivery services $1,000 to ship a car across just 2 or 3 state lines.
So while it would be great if GM would build a tesla (I think they are being built in Kora) by hand, you have a third problem, fixed costs.
There is a reason GM doesn't just switch from one car to another to another everytime demand changes a little. It takes months to switch a line from one car to another and probably millions of dollars.
Go back and look at Articles about Ford Switch a plant in Chicago from Sabels to some POS SUV.