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I'm not terribly surprised of the slow pace of BMW software, their testing matrix must be HUGE really, given all the configuration, for *all the cars* with vastly different performance envelope and physical size.

I think they are not helped by having so many discrete components per car as well; they must have each their own 'team', require integration etc etc etc.

Basically it's nearly as bad as a real OS, and companies like Apple have software dept and QA dept that are massively larger.

Compare that to the odd startups, or even Tesla, that have at most a handful of models, and also look at Tesla failures with their 'autopilot' and stuff -- so far we haven't heard of an X5 killing passengers by accelerating into the back of a parked truck.