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by gibolt 1053 days ago
What are you talking about... Tesla is one of only a handful of OEMs that can even issue OTA updates.

Their cars from 2013 can still get modern features OTA. Please explain how you classify that as a train wreck compared to software cobbled together from 100 vendors (none of whom specialize in software)

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> Please explain how you classify that as a train wreck compared to software cobbled together from 100 vendors

Tesla gets plenty of software from other vendors. And doesn't always test it particularly well - there was a story here of a firmware vendor who had a test harness that took ~36h to verify. They shipped a bug fix to Tesla, told them it was available...

... four hours later, "Great, this is awesome, looks like we fixed the issue."

???

"We just flashed one of the cars here and took it for a drive."

Have you perhaps considered that OTAs aren't a desirable feature in a safety critical system?