Mercedes-Benz previews its operating system MB.OS
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Mercedes-Benz previews its operating system MB.OS
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#2> The company is confident that this strategic approach to software and hardware development will be the basis for lifetime revenues as well as additional contributions. Already in 2022, Mercedes-Benz generated more than 1 billion euro in software-enabled revenues with products and services such as navigation, Live Traffic or online map updates.
Get ready to pay a monthly subscription to use features that come stock on your car.
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#3> The company is confident that this strategic approach to software and hardware development will be the basis for lifetime revenues as well as additional contributions. Already in 2022, Mercedes-Benz generated more than 1 billion euro in software-enabled revenues with products and services such as navigation, Live Traffic or online map updates. Get ready to pay a monthly subscription to use features that come stock…
All it needs to do is support CarPlay. Honestly car manufacturers should just let Apple do the whole car takeover. I’ve not met a stock system I liked. I’d rather it be powered by my phone.
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#4I'll give Google their due, their satnav maps apps was accurate enough and fast enough to not need a co driver on unfamiliar roads with my Colin McRae head on. Thats more than can be said with MB's Becker Maps.
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#5I was recently an owner of a Merced-Benz commercial van, and the software was by far the worst part of that whole experience.
It had obvious race-condition type bugs when it came to the user interface layer, but most frustrating was its tendency to succumb to some kind of memory leak on long drives where the entire head unit would just lock up and crash to a black screen after 6-7 hours of being turned on. Because the vehicle kept the computer system "warm" for up to 30 minutes or so to avoid doing a full (and slow) bootup process every time you stopped for fuel, this was a real problem on long trips and couldn't always be solved by power cycling the vehicle.
Had a dealer try to update it twice, which didn't seem to meaningfully impact the system stability at all.
Then there were multiple other, non-head-unit related glitches like the lane assist and cruise control features being incompatible with the state of Nevada (if the system fails to detect any other vehicles for a period of more than about 90 minutes, it assumes that there is a sensor fault, and refuses to operate [1]. Unfortunately it is quite easy to spend hours on the road alone in many southwestern US states, triggering this failsafe mode)
Suffice it to say that I am very skeptical of any software coming from Mercedes these days.
[1] https://www.winnieowners.com/forums/f265/2019-sprinter-cruis...
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#6Yuck:
> MB.OS is designed and developed in-house to retain full control
You better have some world class software engineers to pull this off, a LOT of them. And retain them. If not, you better go open source. You can still retain full control with open source.
Good software is the KEY to good cars, especially electric ones. Why are we inventing 100 different models of cars every year? What a waste of human potential.
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#7>Offering flexible upgrades
do you want to buy the headlights DLC ($0.9 first month, then $29.9)? Y/n
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#8> The company is confident that this strategic approach to software and hardware development will be the basis for lifetime revenues as well as additional contributions. Already in 2022, Mercedes-Benz generated more than 1 billion euro in software-enabled revenues with products and services such as navigation, Live Traffic or online map updates. Get ready to pay a monthly subscription to use features that come stock…
All it needs to do is support CarPlay. Honestly car manufacturers should just let Apple do the whole car takeover. I’ve not met a stock system I liked. I’d rather it be powered by my phone.
I added a $200 CarPlay radio to our old Honda and it blows away every factory nav unit for usability (and sounds adequate). At this point, I’m only buying a car that has, or can easily have added, wireless CarPlay.
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#9Yuck: > MB.OS is designed and developed in-house to retain full control You better have some world class software engineers to pull this off, a LOT of them. And retain them. If not, you better go open source. You can still retain full control with open source. Good software is the KEY to good cars, especially electric ones. Why are we inventing 100 different models of cars every year? What a waste of human potential.
I’d be surprised if this isn’t just another Android fork.
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#10I was recently an owner of a Merced-Benz commercial van, and the software was by far the worst part of that whole experience. It had obvious race-condition type bugs when it came to the user interface layer, but most frustrating was its tendency to succumb to some kind of memory leak on long drives where the entire head unit would just lock up and crash to a black screen after 6-7 hours of being turned on. Because th…
I’m also horrified by the trend to put more and more of the meters into the UI. My Ford has done the booting thing before on a highway as well as once it flipped the screen horizontally until it was shut down and started again. I can’t imagine the quality is any better for the display components that will replace speedometers and such