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Actually, you should take the comment that the development of the electric car has essentially been completed as an outright praise. You already have said something like that from vehicles with internal combustion engine, about 100 years ago.

And that, too, was meant to be appreciative at the time, and so is the comparison. The combustion engine had finally triumphed over its two competitors, steam and electric power. It was even available in a very powerful form, e.g. with two overhead camshafts.

Well, the all-important front brakes were still missing, but otherwise it had everything you needed to get around, including a possible roof over your head. Do you notice the parallels? The electric car is in no way inferior to the usual, not even in terms of sportiness.

Of course, there are delays, but in principle nothing stands in the way of mastering a long distance. Perhaps the only unique selling point is the lack of engine sound. Even at least medium-weight trailers are now possible.

Sure, there will still be some work to be done in terms of battery capacity and weight, but these are not changes in principle. After all, a lot has happened in vehicles with internal combustion engines over the next 100 years. But the way it looks at the moment, the pure electric drive with battery in cars will not be able to be significantly displaced by either the fuel cell or the combustion engine with regeneratively produced fuel.

Yes, there are already other individual mobility projects, the keywords are autonomous driving and networking. And here you can see what progress looks like that has just not overcome all the hurdles. What is meant is autonomous driving, in which you stand exactly in front of a significant barrier.

The problem here is not so much the release of further autonomy on public roads, but the acceptance of greater legal risks by the manufacturers. Incidentally, Tesla is not necessarily ahead in this area through its skills, but rather through the experiences made, for example. The accidents and Tesla's alleged complicity let the company itself and the other manufacturers grow stiff.

Please think about it. It is a matter of principle here. If a manufacturer takes responsibility for everything that happens within the framework of its autonomous software, as long as it releases the driver, then that means a steadily growing mega-package for the future. With traditional car sales, the legal risks are also present, but many times smaller.

By definition, a judge is required to find a guilty party in proceedings aimed at investigating the causes of an accident. Who will it be if one day there are sometimes no people with a driver's license on board? As a manufacturer, I would develop the software together with others in order to spread the risk and keep insurance premiums under control.

Not so the current manufacturers. At VW you even get the impression that one wants to develop all the software used in the car oneself. So far, every supplier has done its own thing, only in the merger with others everything had to be right. The changes made by VW are already visible, e.g. in significantly more software bugs in the Golf 8 compared to the Golf 7.

The Car Software Organization now has more than 4,000 employees. How long did it actually take for Windows to run reasonably error-free? We recently had the problem that the reset also failed after an unsuccessful upload. Result, reload Windows. And it's only all about computers.

Tesla claims to be developing computer chips that have been completely customized.








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