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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.
Should've been Jolt, following Volt and Bolt.
For whatever reason GM also ended sale of their popular Chevy Bolt platform. It wasn't an amazing car and I'm sure suffered from its own faults as well, but at least from reading reports about the car nothing like what the Ultim-based vehicles are seeing now! Also it was cheaper than the Blazer, so I'm sure less profitable for GM but that made it popular to consumers. Not to mention it still qualified for an EV tax c…
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a44639082/chevrolet-bolt-e...
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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…
There are also rumors of Porsche and Audi being royally pissed off at Volkswagen for that garbage, and at least Porsche is ditching it for Android Auto.
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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.
That is embarrassing but it doesn't necessarily mean anything. What matters is did they end up a competent software engineer.
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...
dropped it for yet another google auto "operating system": https://www.reuters.com/technology/gm-plans-phase-out-apple-...
For whatever reason GM also ended sale of their popular Chevy Bolt platform. It wasn't an amazing car and I'm sure suffered from its own faults as well, but at least from reading reports about the car nothing like what the Ultim-based vehicles are seeing now! Also it was cheaper than the Blazer, so I'm sure less profitable for GM but that made it popular to consumers. Not to mention it still qualified for an EV tax c…
The Chevy Bolt isn't dead. They're just taking a pause while they redesign it for the Ultium battery architecture. In the meantime, the Orion Assembly plant lines where the bolt was built are being used for electric light trucks. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a44639082/chevrolet-bolt-e...
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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…
They're still claiming the Equinox EV will be available at $35k mid 2024 but I'm highly skeptical of that at this point, unless they plan on selling them at a loss.
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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…