[GoToRO]

That sw does not come from Mercedes, they just buy different devices for what they need from suppliers. The salary offered by one such supplier for a graduate engineer was less than what a construction company was offering to hang dry wall (qualified worker). The construction company was raising a new building for the supplier.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

That's mostly an irrelevant detail.

Mercedes may not be the OEM in this instance, though they are certainly the vendor, who put their name and reputation to it.

[radicaldreamer]

Exactly, the buck stops with Mercedes. It's on Mercedes for not investing in higher quality software for their vehicles.

[jacquesm]

That was their choice though.