Volt, Bolt, Blazer? The names for GM'S EV line are like some thing out the "Dodgeball" movie!
The Blazer is a 50+yr old product line, its not really new.
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
#22I 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.
Even if we were to ignore the impossibility of OEMs agreeing on common interface standards, they don't want meaningful standardization of interfaces. It's a way to differentiate themselves from other automakers and do product segmentation without needing to change hardware.
If you're just talking the platform level stuff, that's the automotive Linux initiative.
Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues
#23I 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.
Even if we were to ignore the impossibility of OEMs agreeing on common interface standards, they don't want meaningful standardization of interfaces. It's a way to differentiate themselves from other automakers and do product segmentation without needing to change hardware. If you're just talking the platform level stuff, that's the automotive Linux initiative.
I've never understood the "differentiate themselves" argument, which I've most often seen in the Android os skin world. It seems like most consumers don't know enough to care and the ones who do see the skins/customization as a bad thing.
Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues
#24Volt, Bolt, Blazer? The names for GM'S EV line are like some thing out the "Dodgeball" movie!
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#25Folks you're killing me with the comments re: Blazer naming as if it's some new thing introduced for the EV.
The Blazer line has been part of GM since 1969:
Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues
#26GM 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.
A lot of companies have a kind of organizational disrespect for coding. I don’t think is is possible to build great software while wishing it didn’t exist.
Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues
#27Naming 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.
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#28Related ongoing thread:
Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38749417 - Dec 2023 (23 comments)
Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That is embarrassing but it doesn't necessarily mean anything. What matters is did they end up a competent software engineer.
Re: GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if we were to ignore the impossibility of OEMs agreeing on common interface standards, they don't want meaningful standardization of interfaces. It's a way to differentiate themselves from other automakers and do product segmentation without needing to change hardware. If you're just talking the platform level stuff, that's the automotive Linux initiative.
I've never understood the "differentiate themselves" argument, which I've most often seen in the Android os skin world. It seems like most consumers don't know enough to care and the ones who do see the skins/customization as a bad thing.
I don’t think that’s true. Most consumers know that Toyota is a reliable brand. They know Mercedes is luxurious and that Ferrari makes fast sports cars. This is the differentiation.
The part that customers don’t care about is the stuff under the hood, but that’s not what consumers care about. They care about a set of features at a given price point and aesthetics that they largely don’t find repulsive.