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GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

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Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

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Post by morkalork »

cduzz wrote: post #10
morkalork wrote: post #9

Volt, Bolt, Blazer? The names for GM'S EV line are like some thing out the "Dodgeball" movie!

And porsche's "1970s east berlin exotic dancer" names are better?

Well if we're gonna nitpick naming themes, how about the US army naming anything and everything the M1.

Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

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Post by kraig911 »

I wonder if the infotainment stuff is the same on their gas cars? I just don't know why traditional carmakers couldn't get together, make an open source standard that we could all build on. I hate this future where in automobiles where I'm completely helpless to fix my car myself.

Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

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Post by runlevel1 »

konschubert wrote: post #6

It’s fascinating to see how the legacy automakers are completely failing at this. Money can’t buy culture.

Are they throwing money at it? Or, more to the point, why do legacy automakers have such a hard time shipping polished software?

Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

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Post by dralley »

Naming an electric car the "Blazer" seems like tempting fate.

Even if the car is fine in absolute terms, the first time one lights on fire (for any reason) just invites memes.

And God help you if it should ever have a legitimate issue with the electronics.

Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

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Post by MBCook »

VHRanger wrote: post #3
mey wrote: post #2

This is one of the first vehicles that intentionally dropped Carplay/Android Auto under GMs new strategy. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/gm-confirms-its-droppin...

Car manufacturers having bad first party software? Why I never

Yeah they don’t even understand the #1 reason CarPlay/AA was desirable in the first place.

Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

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Post by beau_g »

runlevel1 wrote: post #13
konschubert wrote: post #6

It’s fascinating to see how the legacy automakers are completely failing at this. Money can’t buy culture.

Are they throwing money at it? Or, more to the point, why do legacy automakers have such a hard time shipping polished software?

Volkswagen recently built a software org up to 6000 people (Cariad) and recently announced they are laying of 2000 of them. If they were structured anything like German suppliers I've dealt with, there was probably a 12 person team in charge of opening curly braces, 15 in charge of closing curly braces, but only a 5 person team responsible for semicolons so the timeline for each line of code was about 2 years. Great reliability though once it's done.

Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

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Post by bluedino »

valine wrote: post #7

GM is not equipped to build software, and that’s okay. What’s not okay is that GM lacks the basic self awareness to recognize their own limitations. The schadenfreude is strong with this one.

It's sort of funny, I know of two "software engineers" that work at GM (on what exactly, I don't know, but it's embedded).

One I worked with at a previous job. He went to a prestigious US military academy for computer science, he worked in our marketing department, and at some point I turned the keys over to our Wordpress site to him. He fucked in up in so many ways and he did so many ass-backwards things...

The next guy was an electrical engineer at a previous job, he once had me help him with a GUI for a Python application to flash firmware to a device we made. It was some of the worst production code I had ever seen, it crashed often, had little error checking, I'm not sure how it even worked.

Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

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Post by bdcravens »

runlevel1 wrote: post #13
konschubert wrote: post #6

It’s fascinating to see how the legacy automakers are completely failing at this. Money can’t buy culture.

Are they throwing money at it? Or, more to the point, why do legacy automakers have such a hard time shipping polished software?

Schedules dictated by marketing and dealership deliveries.

Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

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Post by khzw8yyy »

bluedino wrote: post #18
valine wrote: post #7

GM is not equipped to build software, and that’s okay. What’s not okay is that GM lacks the basic self awareness to recognize their own limitations. The schadenfreude is strong with this one.

It's sort of funny, I know of two "software engineers" that work at GM (on what exactly, I don't know, but it's embedded). One I worked with at a previous job. He went to a prestigious US military academy for computer science, he worked in our marketing department, and at some point I turned the keys over to our Wordpress site to him. He fucked in up in so many ways and he did so many ass-backwards things... The next…

My classmate back from Uni is a pretty high up manager working on GM infotainment (as is his dad). He (the classmate) failed and had to retake CS101 three times.
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