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I am very happy with the software that powers my Hyundai Tuscon hybrid. (It's a massive system that runs the gas and electric engines, recharging, shifting gears, braking, object detection, and a host of information and entertainment systems.) After 2 years, 0 crashes and no observable errors. Of course, nothing is perfect: maps suck. The navigation is fine; it's the display that is at least 2 decades behind the times.

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I've been working for a Korean Hyundai supplier for two years training them in modern software development processes. The programming part is not a problem, they have a lot of talented people.

The big problem from my point of view is management. Everyone pushes responsibility and work all the way down to the developera so that they do basically everything themselves from negotiating with the customer, writing the requirements (or not) to designing the architecture, writing the code and testing the system.

If they're late,they just stay and work longer and on the weekends and sleep at the desk.

> If they're late,they just stay and work longer and on the weekends and sleep at the desk.

This is the only part that sounds bad? Negotiating with customers may require some help as well but it's better than having many layers in between.

If the dev does everything, their manager may as well be put in a basket and pushed down the river. You can be certain there are a lot of managers. The entire storyline sounds like enterprise illness to me to be honest.

I’ve driven a Tucson several times recently (rental). It did not crash but it was below acceptable. A 15 year old VW Golf has better handling than the Tucson.

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