Strong disagree; it's not saving anything but the jobs of those who seem to really enjoy overcomplicating things so they can justify their continued employment.

Strong disagree; it's not saving anything but the jobs of those who seem to really enjoy overcomplicating things so they can justify their continued employment. The old-school pure mechanical lock can be converted into an electric one with just the addition of a solenoid to unlock and lock it. They can be just as flush and aerodynamic without introducing more complexity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49415744 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49415744 I've dealt with the complexities of automotive mechanisms long enough to see many cases where it seems someone just wanted to make something extra fancy rather than solve the fundamentally simple problem. German designs were notoriously one of the worst in this regard, but others are catching up.