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It's rather caused by archaic approach of VW to car software. Tesla showed (almost decade ago) how should it be done. Years have passed and VW is not only behind the competition, but still in '00s. They were agile enough to fake NOx emission tests, but not enough to provide modern solutions for consumers.

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I wouldn't say tesla's software practices should be emulated. Pushing random updates to prod OTA is terrible practice and look at the number of times cars have rebooted while driving

Honestly, i'm not a big Elon Fanboy, but as a german who has driven mostly newer VWs until 2021, the Tesla Software Quality since then is enough for me to outright say I never want a VW Engineer touch my car software again. Yes, their ID series is improving and even outperforming from the actual driving characteristics when it comes to assisted driving, but by god is the user experience horrible.

Driving and using a Tesla is fun in a way no VW ever was for me.

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