So, you know, if this robot has a different camera than that robot, I can still get it, figure it out and get it to work. I don't, I don't have to throw the application away. And that's one of the things that's a little crazy in automotive is, you know, you start swapping out some hardware pieces underneath. You might actually have to scrap and completely rewrite an application because you don't have these kinds of abstractions, you know, you don't have the ability to like, just pick up your software. Like, you know, oh, I was running on, you know, ECU A today, but I can't get it because of the COVID supply chain.

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