Fair point. I believe it's an interesting approach that could prove valuable for some use cases but agree that vehicles mostly standing and that won't change. Because we may see more frequent updates it could be handy not to worry about timing but it's in my opinion all future talk anyway. Let's face it that most automakers are unable to provide OTA today and VW makes it extra complicated with their IDs.
Certainly, the concept of being able to update the software while driving is good but I don't have to be a computer scientist to see that it's not worth the trade-offs and such an ability would obviously come with major trade-offs. Making good software is difficult enough without introducing such a ridiculous complexity for so little benefit.
When I heard that a loud bell went off in my brain, clear as a sunny January morning. The German OEM's are in software hell. Nothing works and even making a simple update is a complex and nearly impossible to accomplish without spending huge amounts of money and time.
So, of course it would be music to their ears if the pied piper of software told them what they wanted to hear. That not only could they provide a solution to the mess they were in, but it wouldn't take long or cost much (relatively speaking) and it would end up being so far superior to market leader Tesla that they would be the envy of the rest of the auto industry. You could make changes to the code with surgical precision, just as easy as sending a tiny update over the air, the car won't even have to stop driving! All the execs have to do is sign the development contract and all their software woes will be solved. Why should you trust us over the competing vendors? Because we are the leading edge. Are the other competing vendors offering the ability to surgical insert updates one line of code at a time? No, I didn't think so because they are not as talented as us. You are the best automaker in the world and you deserve the best automotive software. Only we can provide it. All of your software woes will be a thing of the past.
We are so advanced, so leading edge we don't even have any history of successes yet! But we will make German auto manufacturing great again!
For an industry that is risk-adverse, they sure seemed eager to take this one, hook, line and sinker! It will end up over budget and past deadlines and end up being dropped in a hot mess. How could they be so gullible?
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