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0 pointskube-system3y ago0 comments

Many of the electronic systems in traditional automaker's vehicles are made by a variety of other OEMs anyway. So judging by automaker brand may not really be a good judge of the engineering development of those subsystems. The infotainment might be made by Panasonic and the driver assistance might be made by Bosch.

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piceas3y ago

They are interconnected though. Reputation for faults add up. To me the following is vw's fault.

I've recently had an id4's location fail, and the map was all over the place. It got worse as I drove on.

Annoying, but I thought not a safety issue until the speed limiter caused the car to attempt to slow down by more than 100kph as it was reporting it was somewhere else.

someweirdperson3y ago

The industry is really good at inventing the wheel multiple times. Even in a simple case: Two car manufacturers, same supplier for the same kind of control unit - the hardware will likely look similar, but most likely both are running almost completely different software.

kube-systemOP3y ago

> the hardware will likely look similar, but most likely both are running almost completely different software.

And automotive parts OEMs could run down to Best Buy, point at a Surface Book and a Macbook, and say the same thing.

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