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JohnnyMalaria:
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--- Quote from: TMM on April 15, 2021, 10:58:03 am ---Mercedes-Benz is set to own 20% of Aston Martin, and the cars already use Mercedes-Benz engines/driveline and infotainment among other things if I'm not mistaken. Pretty inevitable in an age where cars are becoming a smartphone on wheels and the profit margins are ever smaller, even on a luxury car.
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You don't know the half of it. I have a Tesla model X and the durn thing is worse than my cell phone with features constantly appearing and disappearing, UI changes and just plain not working very well since nearly everything in the car is a "beta" feature. I think my cell phone is actually less disruptive. At least I can google to find how to fix the issues in my phone. I can google from the car (even if it is slow and clumsy) but there are never fixes, just commiseration.
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A few years ago, my wife bought a new Mini Cooper but declined Mini's equivalent of On-Star. A few months later, we went out to eat. When we got back to the car, it was raining and the windshield wipers wouldn't work. They had been about an hour earlier. I half-jokingly said that Mini must have pushed a firmware update. She called the dealership and that is exactly what happened. So even though she didn't have the On-Star-type service, the car was still in regular communication with Mini.
BTW, if you ever get the chance, take the 3+ hour tour of the Mini manufacturing plant in the UK - an amazing experience.
asmi:
I know that FPGAs and FPGA+CPU SoCs are used a lot in ADAS systems. If you have adaptive cruise in your car, or 360° camera, odds are there is a Zynq hiding somewhere doing the heavy lifting :)
Bud:
--- Quote from: gnuarm on April 15, 2021, 02:21:30 pm --- I have a Tesla model X and the durn thing is worse than my cell phone with features constantly appearing and disappearing, UI changes and just plain not working very well since nearly everything in the car is a "beta" feature.
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Wow, that is plain dangerous. They should not be doing that type of experimentation in the field. Would certainly drive me mad.
gnuarm:
--- Quote from: Bud on April 15, 2021, 08:43:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: gnuarm on April 15, 2021, 02:21:30 pm --- I have a Tesla model X and the durn thing is worse than my cell phone with features constantly appearing and disappearing, UI changes and just plain not working very well since nearly everything in the car is a "beta" feature.
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Wow, that is plain dangerous. They should not be doing that type of experimentation in the field. Would certainly drive me mad.
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It is nice that they continually improve the car in many ways... all free. But it's not so fun knowing that at any time features can change or even not work as well. Mean while they have never gotten the automatic high beam control and the automatic wipers to work fully. It's not like they designed these features last year. After 8 years these things still work very marginally. For the head lights I can take full manual control. For the wipers the choices are automatic with manual override, or no intermittent wiper at all. They don't have a knob on the wiper stalk to let you dial in the delay rate. I guess they figured they would be able to make it work well.
srb1954:
--- Quote from: TMM on April 15, 2021, 10:58:03 am ---
--- Quote from: srb1954 on April 13, 2021, 09:19:44 am ---Morgan is still independent and Aston-Martin is semi-independent of the global conglomerates.
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Mercedes-Benz is set to own 20% of Aston Martin, and the cars already use Mercedes-Benz engines/driveline and infotainment among other things if I'm not mistaken. Pretty inevitable in an age where cars are becoming a smartphone on wheels and the profit margins are ever smaller, even on a luxury car.
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Yes, Mercedes is extending its tentacles into Aston-Martin but they don't have a controlling interest over the company which is why I would describe Aston-Martin as still being semi-independent. The increasing usage of brought-in drive trains and infotainment systems is inevitable these days for small volume manufacturers as they don't have the financial and engineering resources to develop the very complex equipment demanded by today's market.
By the way Morgan have long used BMW drive trains in their cars but they still continue on their independent path with their idiosyncratic car designs.
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