Comment by dreamcompiler

Rivian would have gone out of business a year ago if VW had not approached them with an offer of $5.8B to rewrite all of VW's car software [0]. Because VW knew their own software sucked.

I wonder if this is a result of Rivian writing VW's software or if that effort hasn't yet borne fruit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivian_and_Volkswagen_Group_Te...