> The core ideas behind the Candela C-7 aren’t that complicated: Electric powertrain, battery, hydrofoils, software trim control. I enjoyed the article, so I'm

> The core ideas behind the Candela C-7 aren’t that complicated: Electric powertrain, battery, hydrofoils, software trim control. I enjoyed the article, so I'm not trying to pick on the author too much, but I always find it funny when technical people say this about engineered things. Each of those things is literally an entire discipline and you could still spend a career (or at least many years) only working on one of them. I think we have a tendency to think that because we can understand something and have taken some of the magic out of it that it isn't complex.