What happens if your self driving car maker goes out of business?

[Brad]

Palm went under, now Pebble is being bought by Fitbit and no more watches.  So what happens when you pay a gazillion dollars for a new self driving car only to have the manufacturer merge, go under, give up, meaning no software updates or upgrades in the future?

Think the public will buy that?

[ergophobe]

That's my response whenever someone mentions that Tesla has "software upgrades for life." How long is that? Especially Tesla.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/06/technology/elon-musk-tesla-profit/