I've been through a couple of those myself, it is always very interesting to see how your words come out once they've been interpreted by someone who is essentially clueless but well-meaning and trying to understand something that goes above their normal day-to-day level of complexity. And that's the good case, the one where they don't have an agenda to push.
> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
It isn't totally clear, but there is one fairly strong hint that there will be separation. They quote Singer (the person in charge) as saying, "What we are now doing with these so-called enabling functions is taking them out of customer functions, putting it in a middleware software layer." In context, it seems to be contrasting that against designs where the car's basic functions were too entwined with infotainment, so "taking out" seems to suggest separation.
Cutting out other suppliers will be huge cost savings for Volkswagen if the plan works out too.
Edit: Since I'm apparently I'm so wrong does anyone want to tell me why?
Maybe you should explain why you want to break CV joints so badly.
The Episode of Dirt Every Day where he takes a Jeep Compass off roading (it's on youtube somewhere) is a great example of what you can do with good traction control.