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This is impressive only because they are in automotive. I worked in that industry for years, they are generally at least a decade behind the rest of the software world


The tech in this blog post isn't at all representative of BMW at large.

There's a ton of 'decade behind' stuff that runs in VMs on Win10 machines.


Tesla isn't but this is one of the biggest problems I have with Tesla that I don't hear many people talking about. Tesla is more like a laptop with wheels than a car with a computer. That's fine but I'm not going to upgrade my car on the same schedule that I upgrade my laptop. It would be nice if Tesla allowed you to buy a new "shell" and transfer over your old battery pack. I wonder what the cost breakdown between battery pack and everything else is.


$15,000 for a replacement battery pack for the model 3, so manufacture cost will be a bit under that.


A decade behind would mean their software security is at Windows 7 level at least. It's far from that. More like Windows XP first edition at best.




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