[justin66]

> The mfgs wanted to outsource the development, and now when they need an adjustment to traction control it's a $50, 100, 250, 500,000 charge, BUT, they've also moved the responsibility to the mfgs like Bosch, ConTevis, etc.

I can see where this would complicate and slow delivery of bugfixes, but if you ask me who I'd rather have mucking around with my ABS firmware, a GM engineer or a Bosch engineer, that's an easy answer.

[SlowRobotAhead]

Except Bosch is doing almost all of their real engineering in India right now. GM has their testing ground with cars and data on hand.

It's not as simple as you make it out to be. There are times I would want the system to be looked at holistically not just as components.