There's a certain sense in which competence in some domains repels competence in other domains. If Apple made a car the rear fender would come off just as you opened the drive side door.

If I had to hazard a guess as to the mechanism as it would turn up in an automotive company it is that automotive engineers have the SAE to set professional standards and that software "engineers" have nothing [1]... And if an organized group has a fight with a disorganized group the result is predictable.

[1] the ACM is a professional associate for computer science professors.