I think thats why Mercedes (and Tesla and Waymo) is eating the other legacy automakers guys’ lunch when it comes to self driving. Unlike the other automakers they have a huge in house division devoted to software in Seattle

Those employees are trapped in tens of hours of meetings every week with Mercedes Germany employees, and what code they do ship is NodeJS on Kubernetes on a crummy underpowered SoC to power the infotainment system.

There is a serious cultural mismatch between the Seattle office and Mercedes, just look at the Seattle offices commuting culture (mostly not by car, with many team members literally not owning cars).

That's a shame. When I interviewed with them four years ago there was hope it would turn out better.