TLDR Design · MISCELLANEOUS

UNDERPROMISING AND OVERDELIVERING IN THE AGE OF THE SOFTWARE-DEFINED VEHICLE

cardesignnews.com5 min read

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Car companies like Tesla, GM, and Volkswagen have recently released unfinished or ill-conceived products, possibly risking their reputations or even customers' safety, while asking people to trust completely new technologies. Automobile quality and safety standards are slipping due to a fascination with Silicon Valley's stock valuations and product culture, a need for clarity between intelligent and valuable, and simple overpromising and underdelivering.