Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on ""It's costing billions" Report says legacy auto struggling to launch new EVs" video.

I figured they'd struggle with software and more, but seems worse than most of us thought across the board. It's a cleansing, old industries tend to become lethargic and laden with self inflicted non-essential costs, bureaucracy and hurdles. Bye bye Block Buster, Sears and Blackberry. Was good knowing ya Toyota and VW...GM not so much, lol.
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@icosthop9998 I come from Honda Toyota family in recent decades. You aren't wrong. Oh well, times change, better to be a Tesla fanboy today....whoever earns it and pushes the industry forward.
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"Computers on wheels" regardless of drivetrain type, is new to them. Ford's Jim Farley says they have some 150 separately proprietary programmed components that Ford has to somehow integrate in one vehicle, they can't do anything by themselves, have to work with suppliers to make smallest changes, that's cumbersome as hell. Of course they are not proficient at software anyway.
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@baldisaerodynamic9692 Toy also flipflops repeatedly on their supposed future. Failing at BEVs and still investing heavy in the hydrogen fantasy? I seriously doubt they will be prepared, it's not something they can quickly switch to, the time is NOW.
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@fast-trackhack6637 Culture is crucial and probably the hardest to change. It's much bigger than unions, but even that alone completely alters, deeply, seemingly irrevocably corrodes everything. One of biggest benefits to demise of legacies is demise of union mafias, nothing good ever comes from those parasites.
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Martin Eberhard was barely a cofounder and contributed next to nothing, Marc also a bit player. It was JB Strobel and Elon from the start, but Martin has nothing better to do then edit Wikipedia to make himself look important, he was NOT.
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In reference to mandates? Mandates are irrelevant, just pols posturing, they can't mandate what industry hasn't already made economical. Market forces will drive the transition well before retarded mandates take effect.
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They wouldn't be competitive in China without producing there. Tesla doesn't need China for the rest of the world obviously, doing fine in America (where it is born and based), Europe and everywhere else.
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Ford's Farley said it's more like 150 different interfaces for them, they are screwed.
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@wertigon How can they possibly efficiently integrate hundreds of disparate proprietary software components? Tesla is the low cost leader and by far most vertically integrated, aka., making critical unique components in house.
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@wertigon Are they? OK. We'll see, seems like an inherently inferior foundation to work from.
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@wertigon Cool, thanks. I've long expected something like that but it's well outside my wheelhouse so I can be misguided fairly easily on this.
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Legacies couldn't even copy the CT in 20 yrs, literally. They take 4 to 5 yrs typically for a "new model" with mostly superficial changes.
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