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"Cars these days are too complex" ... said everyone, at every stage in the history of motoring. We get comfortable with a certain level of complexity and after
by andygates 11y ago
"Cars these days are too complex" ... said everyone, at every stage in the history of motoring. We get comfortable with a certain level of complexity and after that, change is get-off-my-lawn bad. But it's a human thing, not a tech thing.
- dsfyu404ed 11y agoThere wasn't much to complain about when going from flathead to OHV, OHC and adding basic EFI and maybe forced induction because those things were relatively small and self-confined changes that created large benefits. Now they're using technology to tie subsystems together and fine tune the vehicle system as a whole. The problem with that is that it creates inter-dependency within the system. How are you supposed to adjust your power mirrors|seats if the wiring for the courtesy lights keeps blowing the shared fuse. Unless a major breakthrough in drive-train technology comes along that can be taken advantage of we're in the long slow march of the optimizing process where you spend 90% of your resources to get that last 10% of performance.