I thought this is his roundabout way of dealing with the royals supposed political neutrality 🤷‍♂️

When regulators make this reasonable. A lot of OEMs are interested in FOSS, but liability makes it hard - especially for safety critical domains.

I’ve heard it lots of times (sometimes just as “sixteen sixteen”) - mostly for years though.

And it seems like Wikipedia agrees:

In American usage, four-digit numbers are often named using multiples of “hundred” and combined with tens and ones: “eleven hundred three”, “twelve hundred twenty-five”, “forty-seven hundred forty-two”, or “ninety-nine hundred ninety-nine”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals)

I don’t think e.g. Jane Austen was German.

You probably did, but then you did the sensible thing and (mostly) changed it around. You can read some 19th century novels and find stuff like “I am two and twenty years old”.

Mostly because it’s still the old order for the teens. 1616 could be read as sixteen hundred sixteen, right?

Which at least in Germany should lead to failing vehicle inspections.

Doubtful. Android automotive OS runs on a single ECU in the car while a lot more are in there running QNX, Linux or some embedded OSes (sometimes there are more than 100 such ECUs in the car). So there’s no guarantee that the “problematic” services are even running on this ECU (I bet it’s more distributed). Furthermore updating / changing the software of a single ECU is done using special hardware or through some kind of gateway ECU. They will perform validation on the to-be-flashed software to ensure it’s from the vendor itself.

And even if you’d get it flashed I can guarantee you that nothing will work.