Don't tell me I can't do it.
Okay so I'm not planning on mentioning names right now. Well I guess it wouldn't hurt but I don't know if this could ever get read by peoples I wouldn't want reading it.
Anyway, that trip to Detroit was not that exciting but the highlights are thus:
A) Succeeded in pissing off Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#1 by telling them about patent by podunk little interlock company that we don't like.
B) May have succeeded in pounding the concept into Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#2's head that we do not splice wires, nor do we plan to. This also made Competitor-#2 look horrendously bad.
C) Getting told that we can not ever tap into Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#2's CAN bus system in their minivans, in fact we have to use some third party gateway.
D) Nobody actually does any work in the united states anymore. It is all outsourcing, and thus nobody knows how anything works and it takes them forever to integrate it. Then they have to create rules that make our life harder because we know more about their system than they do. Except we're missing the full documentation so have to do things in convoluted ways.
Item C is the major peeve for me and a co-worker. See we've already done the majority of the work associated with said interface. In fact Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#2 doesn't plan on using it until the 2007 model year and we figure we can get it done in 6 months. In fact we feel so confident in our abilities we think we can kick out a gateway even faster than the third party we would have to buy one from.
Anyway, that trip to Detroit was not that exciting but the highlights are thus:
A) Succeeded in pissing off Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#1 by telling them about patent by podunk little interlock company that we don't like.
B) May have succeeded in pounding the concept into Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#2's head that we do not splice wires, nor do we plan to. This also made Competitor-#2 look horrendously bad.
C) Getting told that we can not ever tap into Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#2's CAN bus system in their minivans, in fact we have to use some third party gateway.
D) Nobody actually does any work in the united states anymore. It is all outsourcing, and thus nobody knows how anything works and it takes them forever to integrate it. Then they have to create rules that make our life harder because we know more about their system than they do. Except we're missing the full documentation so have to do things in convoluted ways.
Item C is the major peeve for me and a co-worker. See we've already done the majority of the work associated with said interface. In fact Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#2 doesn't plan on using it until the 2007 model year and we figure we can get it done in 6 months. In fact we feel so confident in our abilities we think we can kick out a gateway even faster than the third party we would have to buy one from.
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