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by hef19898 2514 days ago
There's a potential fallicy here. Tesla should be compared to other car companies and not software companies. Because Tesla is building cars.
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really though how many car companies have OTA updates
They all will. Volkswagen is doing it for its electric cars. But that level of connectivity is not necessarily a good thing:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/29120/top-ota-expert-shows-how...

i wouldnt count on it bosh has a choke hold on any innovation in the auto software space , at this point its no secret that auto software is in the state it is because of bosch choke hold on the whole market .
i think we might both be right tesla is a software company and others are catching up to the reality of cyber security in a connected world. they are adopting FOSS to their clossed source systems which isnt the same as building a stack around FOSS from the ground up which is a very software company thing to do.
> i think we might both be right

No, you claimed other car companies won't have over-the-air software updates which is false. You claimed Bosch controls automative software which is also false. Bosch also makes use of a lot of open source software:

https://oss.bosch-cm.com/