Re:Why GM Hired 8,000 Programmers
by pavel_lishin on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @04:25PM
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It sounds like it's done for legal and financial reasons, rather than technological ones.
What's the story with GM creating dealer protection laws? Don't those laws exist to protect dealers from the manufacturers.
That's how they started(and with a heavy lobbying effort from dealers), but it's lately been used to attack Tesla's business model, which does not use in independent dealers.
The dealers, I'm sure, are doing more lobbying against Tesla than the other manufacturers.
They're going to be the face of the lobbying because they're local to legislators being lobbied, but I wouldn't assume that means anything about who pays the bills.
Re:Why GM Hired 8,000 Programmers
by thorntonbf on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @04:18PM
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You're correct. Edited above. Made a mental association equating NADA with the manufacturers and that's inaccurate.
I'm also curious about the size and scale of all of this. 8,000 developers/engineers isn't that many when you measure that cost against a $3B/year HP deal. But, it seems like it's way more than it needs to be. And, the costs associated with this bloat is going to be absorbed by consumers.