>Why else, for example, would the ID3 have an infotainment system with a SoC clearly not capable of handling the software it was tasked to run? That definitely

>Why else, for example, would the ID3 have an infotainment system with a SoC clearly not capable of handling the software it was tasked to run? That definitely wasn't about penny pinching, obviously the increase in quality of a better chip would completely outweigh the costs. Issues like these exist because of a very large and diffuse organization which develops cars over many years. At some early point in time a chip is choosen (by the time the car is built it is already outpaced by cheaper chips) and resources on that chip are allocated to different development groups, which then have to fight one another and themselves to get their software done within the resources allocated them. The problem is that the moment any of the initial assumptions about the engineering are violated, the chip becomes insufficient and UX suffers. At that point in time changing the chip would actually delay when the car can be produced, so the internal politics increases to figure out how to make it work. The ID3 was also especially bad since it was the first car of a new Platform and obviously in the planning of the E/E for that platform the need for processing power for the Infotainment system was severely underestimated. And while that decision certainly concerned money, it definitely wouldn't have been made if the consequences had been visible at that point in time.