[tclancy]

I mean, yes. I would like to know that because it’s an unacceptable state of affairs from my perspective. If the production line relied on just always having someone working who remembered things instead of a proper solution to the Hit By a Bus problem I wouldn’t be buying that brand. It is my anecdata, uninformed opinion much of IT for cars is below average development. I started to wonder about this when I got a hold of two USB images to update a Chevy Camaro in 2010 (open driver’s side door between keys to indicate you were about to install the second USB key) and it feels weird to me this is still so poorly secured. Between the Hyundai/ Kia theft is sue a couple years back and my own experience with multiple long-standing bugs in our Hyundai’s infotainment system, I am suspicious of this ever being fixed.

[krater23]

Oh, don't understand me wrong. I've never seen a better organized embedded development process than in automotive. Review rules, reproducable builds, sometimes good unit tests(not just senseless stupid shit that wastes developer time), a test department in another room that develops test software to automate hardware in the loop tests, huge hardware in the loop test rigs that are running the newest build 24/7. IT in cars is all other than below average. It's not the move fast and break things shit of silicon valley. And it's not the 'we ship it with the next update' shit of the game industry.

BUT, there is no documentation because there is no time to do it. There are SOP-1(Start of Production). This date is carved in stone. When a feature is not done for SOP-1, than it is not delivered in SOP-2. SOP-2 happens normally 6 month later. After that, updates are only done when something bad happens. The complete team moves on to the next head unit.

So, I would expect your bugs will not get fixed in any way, at least when they are not important enough to mobilize a new small team or some people that worked on it to fix them. Normally shortly before SOP-2, all tickets are closed, known bugs too. That feels a little frustrating as customer, but more as developer.

Oh, and don't think that you can run away from that by buing another brand. Normally not your car manufacturer develops the head unit. It's other companies and they work all the same and they work for all car companies.