alt Hacker NewsAUTOSAR had some good foundations, but consultants who didn't understand anything (as normal) over sold what it did and then sold companies on a lot of bad ideas because management didn't understand the real problems.
If your program is hello world complexity then it isn't worth the cost to make it reusable, just write and maintain 100 different copies - meanwhile elsewhere there are only 5 copies of the transmission controls and since it is only 5 it didn't get to the top of the list to fix redundancy - but those controls are very complex and making one version would be well wroth the effort.
No, AUTOSAR is a flaming pile of shit. What good ideas did AUTOSAR have? Reusable software components? That is the idea every single software engineer or computer scientist had ever, it is completely unusable and I have never, ever seen a MISRA C compliant anything if it is generated by AUTOSAR (well, unless you count a deviation list longer than the ARXML used to generate the crap).
"AUTOSAR is a good idea, it works in theory", nope, much like communism if your theory does not work and continues to fall flat on its face it is a terrible theory. No one would say a theory of gravity that predicted you would turn into a unicorn if your really wanted to and dropped a ball at the same time had merits.
Here is an idea to make the automotive industry slightly better, just an incremental improvement. DBC files are used to specify CAN interfaces, they allow big endian and little endian messages within THE SAME MESSAGE, which is madness. Why not pick an endianess, just one, it does not matter which, do not make things generic (I have nightmares of German mechanical engineers writing software saying the word "generic"). Do that an you have actually achieved something. I am not even suggesting specifying what messages numbers do what, or what signals they contain for a particular ECU (which would make literal components reusable). The automotive industry is riddled with bad, terrible, software.
I do not know how you blame consultants, the German automotive industry sabotaged themselves.
I have no idea how it can be used in safety critical software, because no one understands it. I guess they just test the fuck out of it.
Sorry for the poorly thought out rant...AUTOSAR makes me...emotional.