Don't forget that the "Move fast and break things" motto was born out of the software world. So claiming something is a software company works both for and agai

Don't forget that the "Move fast and break things" motto was born out of the software world. So claiming something is a software company works both for and against them in this case. Think of Heartbleed to understand why having software engineers and literally millions of eyes on a problem might still mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. And understanding a problem only takes you one step closer to solving it. How you solve it, and how you keep doing this day after day going forward makes a lot of difference either way. The truth is the moment it's technically possible to hack a car remotely, cars will be hacked remotely. We've had computers of all kinds for decades and couldn't manage to make them "hack-proof". Consoles are as close as it gets and I'm sure if they were as critical as a car they would have been thoroughly hacked by now. Having any kind of "self driving" feature means safety critical systems (acceleration, braking, steering) can be controlled entirely by the car's computer. And having OTA updates means there is some link between that critical computer and the outside world. And in that outside world people managed to hack airgapped computers in a military nuclear facility. If only that facility was "a software company"... they could have CI/CDed the malware in their infrastructure.