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by JumpCrisscross 1177 days ago
> you can’t get these things right, how can I trust that you will get the safety critical software right

Does any major car manufacturer routinely nail their infotainment systems?

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Infotainment is so horribly universally bad that Apple CarPlay and the Android equivalent came into being.
No, but other manufacturers are much more conservative about how they market their software (e.g., naming it ‘driver assist’ vs ‘autopilot’). It’s an obvious and explicit declaration that their software should not be relied on to be the main mitigation in safety-critical scenarios.
Yeah… I honestly think that altho the Tesla infotainment system isn’t perfect, if we’re gonna judge the safety competency of car companies based on how good their in-house infotainment is, Tesla’s would be far and above the best (until the Apple car comes out or something…).