Too Simple To Figure Out Dept...!?!
The more smart or automatic an appliance becomes the more time and money you'll spend trying to make it work. Net result: You lose time and you lose a ton of money. Great for technician's income...
Forum Discussion
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:How many people carry a tool kit in the trunk now? Almost nobody because they aren't needed like they used to be. Back then you carried a tool kit because it was an often needed accessory, like a spare tire. Cars broke down back then...a lot. Frequent maintenance was the order of the day. Yes, you can't repair a new car on the road like you had to 40 years ago, but on the flip side, you rarely need to.
There were a lot of 1-star vehicles back then and people with good memories and bad judgement love to paint all cars with the same color.
Car stalls on the shoulder of a road back then, grab the tool kit in the trunk. Car stalls on the shoulder of a road today grab the KY Jelly from the glove compartment.
40-50 years ago no one considered buying a vehicle with over 100,000 miles on it. Now it's common practice to see lots of cars/trucks with over 100,000 miles for sale, and with relatively high prices.
Heck, maybe we could get rid of all these pesky transistors and go back to vacuum tubes while we're getting rid of all this high tech unneeded stuff.
Is there unneeded high tech stuff on new cars? Absolutely, the need for a mobile hotspot in your car is pretty silly. Bluetooth in your new car? Also pretty silly. Lots of touch screens? Again, pretty silly. But Madison Avenue is trying to make you buy new cars and if they don't come up with new and different "features" who will buy new? Who would buy a new car if the only difference is the color?
Simple doens't necessarily mean better. Lada's and Yugo's are simple.
