From what I understood Microsoft and Ford worked pretty closely on SYNC and that was a large success.
> Rumor is Ford outsourced to Microsoft who outsourced to someone's cousin who wrote it in Adobe Air or something It's not that important and cheapest bidder is fine.įormer Microsoft employee that worked on MyFordTouch for a little while. Oh the audio system? Automatic seat adjustment? Bluetooth? Let's write a requirement document, or even just a requirement powerpoint and send it out for quote. But the people doing the UI were basically considered marketing.
#Etunes safety contract id software#
Among the mechanical engineers the folks writing control software for steering stability or performance-vs-efficiency code were treated with respect ("I don't understand what you do but sure, happy to explain this mechanical system"). The embedded software developers for engine control are serious.
Kind of the equivalent of "I'll spin up another server when the load gets to X% just to have a good safety margin" or "this onboarding path could look like a dark pattern - let's work around that just in case". Not only do they care about the mechanical systems, they care enough that they'll make sure certain customer-invisible things (internal to engine, for example) or customer-subconscious things (in Mercedes' case how the hinge on the door works) are "just right". The people in car companies (engineering and management) are typically "gear heads". I did some contracting for Mercedes in Germany and Toyota in Japan and learned why this is the case.