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Some comments read to me as if they were trying to say, >I want to benefit from the latest technology >I want to enjoy the bleeding edge tech >bugs? Why are the
by dexen 7y ago
Some comments read to me as if they were trying to say, >I want to benefit from the latest technology
>I want to enjoy the bleeding edge tech
>bugs? Why are there bugs in the bleeding edge technology?
>misfeatures? Why are there misfeatures in the bleeding edge tech?
Some people are okay with occasional tech hiccups as the price of pushing the frontier forward. I hereby thank the brave beta-testers, and hold them above the people who expect perfection the first time out of the gate.
Now if they went for a Death Valley trip in the car that'd have been entirely different story - one of irresponsibility and needless risk taking. But as things were, they suffered only a major inconvenience and no appreciable risk to life and limb, due to maintaining sensible proximity to civilization.
On a lighter note, please consider the histories of Alice Ramsey[1] - first woman to drive cross USA, and Bertha Benz[2] - first woman to drive cross a country, having financed the development of the car. Both encountered malfunctions and other mishaps, solved problems & persevered, and earned fame and appreciation. Both also added to the popularization & development of the technology.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Huyler_Ramsey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Huyler_Ramsey
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz#First_cross-country_automobile_journey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz#First_cross-countr...
- devb 7y agoI thought you opened with quotes from the article, but it seems like you made them up? There's no indication that the people here were expecting to go on a pioneering expedition.
- dexen 7y agoYou are right, and thank you for pointing it out. My intent was to satirize the incredulity or even outrage conveyed in certain comments; should've chosen a better format for that.
- userbinator 7y agoencountered malfunctions and other mishaps, solved problems & persevered The big difference is, cars back then were far simpler, and more importantly could actually be fixed by anyone with a bit of mechanical skill, which wasn't in short supply at the time. Modern cars are so complex and computerised that even if you own it, you are still mostly powerless to do anything if something goes wrong, and it could even be deliberately designed to thwart repair by anyone other than the original manufacturer.