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by ano-ther
1021 days ago
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I also wouldn’t pay for this. But the economics are more interesting. BMW and AWS ran a quantum computing challenge two years ago. One of the tasks was to figure out all the combinations of features that need to be tested (sometimes destructively) [1]. I would imagine that having features installed in all vehicles provides a less taxing testing regime than having a physical option. And in addition, it will be cheaper to just manufacture one version of a thing (and then switch in software). [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/quantum-computing/winners-annou... |
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Curious to learn the underlying economics, but not sure how software-locking features would make testing any easier. While different configurations would create somewhat unique feature-sets, not having to test some features on a certain percentage of vehicles (I imagine a testing technician looking at the missing buttons and writing down "N/A") seems more efficient than having to test every feature on every vehicle in an attempt to oversimplify.