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Re:Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months by throwup238 on Saturday December 23, 2023 @07:59PM (#38749969)
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
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Re:Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months by simfree on Saturday December 23, 2023 @09:42PM (#38750611)
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).

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Re:Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months by throwup238 on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:44AM (#38751436)
That's a shame. When I interviewed with them four years ago there was hope it would turn out better.
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