SHANGHAI - Volkswagen will use Chinese software developers to help design a global autonomous vehicle architecture thanks to the prevalence of qualified programmers which carmakers are struggling to hire elsewhere, senior executives said on Monday.
Volkswagen has 4,000 engineers in China, with an average age of 29, spread over five research and development sites and a rapidly growing number of software engineers. As a result, Chinese suppliers will help Volkswagen Group to design a global autonomous vehicle architecture, he said. “We will further strengthen our capabilities to develop in China for China and for certain technologies for the rest of the world. We find excellent talents here and are ready address customer requirements in this fascinating market,” Patuschka said.
'In a short period from now they will be able to do 15 to 20 million lines of programming code on an annual basis,' - quantity of code doesn’t mean quality code...bro
Terrible. Why are VWGroup and Germany, for that matter, so hell bent on using China, who have proven themselves to be distrustful, for this and 5G? It's either PROFIT over safety & security or something more nefarious.
Bad move for VWGroup
Just a friendly reminder your Bluetooth is spying on you.
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