German Leaders at Odds with Industry Over Electric Cars
German here. My Problem with the German Car Industry is that they still see the car as a product, not as a platform. A car is a major investment and one that sticks to me for a while. I must rely on the car manufactures to continuously push updates and improve the lane-keeping assistant etc. (Maybe even the style of the UI?). I don&#x27;t see this happening, at all. The lane keeping assistants get shipped and then forgotten, everybody is working on a new integration that is maybe coming out in years (crazy to think about if your only used to software-cycles). I don&#x27;t want to be in the situation that i can&#x27;t pair my smartphone with my car next year because mercedes doesn&#x27;t bother updating it&#x27;s software. Tesla does OTA updates and sees it&#x27;s car as a platform, at least in my perspective. Software is all i know and they don&#x27;t understand software yet. Softwares lives, unsupported software is dead.<p>I don&#x27;t think that they are completely missing the electric car trend. They are being cautious, but everybody is at least getting it&#x27;s feet wet. I hope they can then &quot;just&quot; scale their production. I don&#x27;t think this is enough, but i hope they can turn around quickly enough when this gets serious.<p>But overall the future doesn&#x27;t look too good.<p>Besides, i don&#x27;t have the money right now to buy a car (also i don&#x27;t want to).