There is only one car company on the planet that I would trust currently to buy a car that has a lot of software in it. This company is Tesla Motors.
Why is that? Well let’s look at my oven 
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This is my oven. My oven is always about 5 hours off the correct time.
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So if Whirlpool really understood software they would understand that one of the challenges with software is that with great power comes great responsibility. Software makes it easier to make richer more functional products, but it also means you can ship software with more bugs. Which means that companies which put software into their products need to have a sound update strategy.Tesla is the only car company in the market that would trust to sell me a car with software because they have their shit together with how they update their software.