VW OTA Software Updates Announcment

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Why can we not get clarity beyond some time in some quarter about software updates maybe? Ford is dropping the ball versus the VW marketing department:

"Volkswagen is moving up a gear when it comes to digitalization. After the successful roll-out of our all-electric ID. family, the brand is once again leading the movement: we are creating a totally new, digital customer experience with new functions and greater comfort – every 12 weeks. This makes us the first high-volume manufacturer to regularly deliver extensive Over-the-Air Updates. This is an important milestone in the implementation of our ACCELERATE strategy, which is preparing Volkswagen for the connected, digital mobility of the future."

https://electrek.co/2021/07/05/vw-l...are-update-coming-id-electric-vehicle-lineup/
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Why can we not get clarity beyond some time in some quarter about software updates maybe? Ford is dropping the ball versus the VW marketing department:

"Volkswagen is moving up a gear when it comes to digitalization. After the successful roll-out of our all-electric ID. family, the brand is once again leading the movement: we are creating a totally new, digital customer experience with new functions and greater comfort – every 12 weeks. This makes us the first high-volume manufacturer to regularly deliver extensive Over-the-Air Updates. This is an important milestone in the implementation of our ACCELERATE strategy, which is preparing Volkswagen for the connected, digital mobility of the future."

https://electrek.co/2021/07/05/vw-l...are-update-coming-id-electric-vehicle-lineup/
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Why can we not get clarity beyond some time in some quarter about software updates maybe? Ford is dropping the ball versus the VW marketing department:

"Volkswagen is moving up a gear when it comes to digitalization. After the successful roll-out of our all-electric ID. family, the brand is once again leading the movement: we are creating a totally new, digital customer experience with new functions and greater comfort – every 12 weeks. This makes us the first high-volume manufacturer to regularly deliver extensive Over-the-Air Updates. This is an important milestone in the implementation of our ACCELERATE strategy, which is preparing Volkswagen for the connected, digital mobility of the future."

https://electrek.co/2021/07/05/vw-l...are-update-coming-id-electric-vehicle-lineup/
Yep, marketing departments can create regular schedules and make it sound easy. It actually proves VW's upper echelon has no idea about the realities of software development. In the real world of software development that's a total fantasy. What will they do 10 weeks into the schedule and they find a serious bug - one that wasn't uncovered until the conditions were right or the corner cases were duration tested? Do they release the update anyway, especially if it is a safety issue or breaks a key functionality.

Even Elon Musk knows not to make naive and impossible to meet statements like that
 
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Ford is being overly cautious with OTA. Time will tell if that strategy pays off. Personally, I'd prefer a bit more oomph in the OTA schedule. I'm on the beta program list, and still haven't received any updates.
 


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Why can we not get clarity beyond some time in some quarter about software updates maybe? Ford is dropping the ball versus the VW marketing department:

"Volkswagen is moving up a gear when it comes to digitalization. After the successful roll-out of our all-electric ID. family, the brand is once again leading the movement: we are creating a totally new, digital customer experience with new functions and greater comfort – every 12 weeks. This makes us the first high-volume manufacturer to regularly deliver extensive Over-the-Air Updates. This is an important milestone in the implementation of our ACCELERATE strategy, which is preparing Volkswagen for the connected, digital mobility of the future."

https://electrek.co/2021/07/05/vw-l...are-update-coming-id-electric-vehicle-lineup/

This is exactly the kind of thing I am hoping Ford never does. Setting a schedule for releases means setting a schedule for the introduction of bugs, some of which may brick your $50k car.
 
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This is exactly the kind of thing I am hoping Ford never does. Setting a schedule for releases means setting a schedule for the introduction of bugs, some of which may brick your $50k car.
Fair enough and to each their own. Personally, I would just like to see some movement after many months now. I appreciated that VW stepped up and offered some sort of timeline versus "soon" and this/that quarter. Maybe it will be a debacle for them, who knows.
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