XOLATEM
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Dear ISPKI,
I have the greatest respect for a man that works with metal and has an engineering background and I only wish that I had gone a different route in my education early on when I had the backup and resources to do so..things might have been very different for me if I had...
And...
I appreciate very much your heartfelt treatise on modern automotive technology and I see where you are coming from on many points and maybe even agree with you on some from my own logical and emotional perspective...
But...
Get a load of this...https://www.howtopreventratsfromeatingcarwires.com/2017/02/10/does-your-car-have-soy-based-wiring/
Time does not allow me to give your recommendation another perspective...this is just the first thing to come to mind after having been a mechanic in the field since 1978 after having been studying mechanical things since around 1970...
Remember...the surface transportation industry is a BUSINESS..for profit...and as such compromises will be made and costs will be cut.
Don't think for a minute that any altruistic purpose has EVER been driving supposed technological advances...
Another thing...all of the technology that supposedly makes vehicles better, safer, and longer lasting has the opposite effect with road safety...just drive on a highway at most any time and you will see people acting like they are invincible and driving like insane lunatics...
Most anyone that has been on the major highways will attest to the truth of that assertion...I am sure you have...
Have you ever witnessed what happens when you have a kid and 'give' them 'everything..'?...they don't appreciate ANYTHING...because they come to 'expect' 'everything' since they 'get' it so easily...and as a result they become ever so progressively DEMANDING.
It is a logical conclusion that just having airbags reduces a driver's anxiety about having a collision...and in turn they will drive more aggressively...endangering other innocent fellow travellers.
Yesterday I witnessed a twenty-something trying to learn to drive a stickshift car...something I learned as a young teen..there is a reason that having a manual transmission car is joked as being millenial-proof.
And this is supposed to be 'progress'?
Respectfully submitted...
An old mechanic...
I have the greatest respect for a man that works with metal and has an engineering background and I only wish that I had gone a different route in my education early on when I had the backup and resources to do so..things might have been very different for me if I had...
And...
I appreciate very much your heartfelt treatise on modern automotive technology and I see where you are coming from on many points and maybe even agree with you on some from my own logical and emotional perspective...
But...
Get a load of this...https://www.howtopreventratsfromeatingcarwires.com/2017/02/10/does-your-car-have-soy-based-wiring/
Time does not allow me to give your recommendation another perspective...this is just the first thing to come to mind after having been a mechanic in the field since 1978 after having been studying mechanical things since around 1970...
Remember...the surface transportation industry is a BUSINESS..for profit...and as such compromises will be made and costs will be cut.
Don't think for a minute that any altruistic purpose has EVER been driving supposed technological advances...
Another thing...all of the technology that supposedly makes vehicles better, safer, and longer lasting has the opposite effect with road safety...just drive on a highway at most any time and you will see people acting like they are invincible and driving like insane lunatics...
Most anyone that has been on the major highways will attest to the truth of that assertion...I am sure you have...
Have you ever witnessed what happens when you have a kid and 'give' them 'everything..'?...they don't appreciate ANYTHING...because they come to 'expect' 'everything' since they 'get' it so easily...and as a result they become ever so progressively DEMANDING.
It is a logical conclusion that just having airbags reduces a driver's anxiety about having a collision...and in turn they will drive more aggressively...endangering other innocent fellow travellers.
Yesterday I witnessed a twenty-something trying to learn to drive a stickshift car...something I learned as a young teen..there is a reason that having a manual transmission car is joked as being millenial-proof.
And this is supposed to be 'progress'?
Respectfully submitted...
An old mechanic...
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