> Katcherian claims that his team removed all possible bugs from the infotainment system.
Famous last words.. Did he talk to the software engineers? I've never met one that guarantees their code is bug-free. Because it isn't. Especially at this level of complexity.
> "There's no such thing as bugging in a way that won't give you the option to turn the headlights on and off."
Oh trust me, reality will find a way.
> "So I think you'll see kind of a transition from more physical switches to more virtual switches overall, because it gives you a lot more flexibility in terms of what you can update and how you can update them in the future," Katcherian said.
So, what do you want to update in a switch? It's already basically a soft switch anyway as even hardware switches are just sending canbus commands. Its functionality is perfectly upgradable.
There's no upgrade for getting caught in bad weather or a tunnel and having to fiddle with a distracting touchscreen to get the lights on though.
> Katcherian claims that his team removed all possible bugs from the infotainment system.
Can't imagine anyone who has any experience as an engineer can utter something like that. The guy has a title of "chief engineer" but he's probably from marketing.
Well, it looks like he's not a software engineer? That's my only explanation - I can't imagine how any software engineer would claim any system as complex as car infotainment system does not have any possible bugs. Unless they made mathematically rigorous mode of it and achieved a formal proof of it - but then we'd probably have heard about it, because AFAIK it has never been done before.
Famous last words.. Did he talk to the software engineers? I've never met one that guarantees their code is bug-free. Because it isn't. Especially at this level of complexity.
> "There's no such thing as bugging in a way that won't give you the option to turn the headlights on and off."
Oh trust me, reality will find a way.
> "So I think you'll see kind of a transition from more physical switches to more virtual switches overall, because it gives you a lot more flexibility in terms of what you can update and how you can update them in the future," Katcherian said.
So, what do you want to update in a switch? It's already basically a soft switch anyway as even hardware switches are just sending canbus commands. Its functionality is perfectly upgradable.
There's no upgrade for getting caught in bad weather or a tunnel and having to fiddle with a distracting touchscreen to get the lights on though.