I'm sure that when the author today reads what he wrote, he will ask himself "what the heck was i thinking?" Each of the dozens of ECUs in todays cars have a p

I'm sure that when the author today reads what he wrote, he will ask himself "what the heck was i thinking?" Each of the dozens of ECUs in todays cars have a plentifold of complexity compared to any system existing in 1988. Still a majority of people are managing to operate such a vehicle with as biggest aid, exactly the naive abstractions that he lamented about. The highly simplified mental model that we create of anything we interact with, is the biggest human strength, while he seemed to advocate quite the opposite.