Posted by Birdman on February 18, 2010 at 05:47:13 from (216.49.253.254):
In Reply to: stuff these days posted by Evan jubilee on February 17, 2010 at 19:18:41:
Well there is a middle ground here to both points of views. One side is saying stuff is too complicated and over reliant on technology...the other side is saying that technology is making stuff last alot longer and is more durable.
I would remind those that are saying things last longer with all the tech that it's not the computer controls and complicated crap that makes a truck last 300,000 miles today as opposed to 120,000 40 years ago. The difference now vs then is the quality of the parts and the design of the components. Bearings that are made of far better material, metalergy advances for things like brake pads clutch disks and such are mostly to blame for the extended life of todays vehicles...NOT computer controlled junk.
Designs are far better today as well. Disk brakes over drums, valve design, transmission design. The biggest exception is EFI but even at that the computer needed to run EFI doesn't need to control fuel injection and powershift while monitoring all the other minor outboard systems. Now if an effing sensor goes out you might lose the entire vehicle use until you find the problem and replace the sensor. I've seen this in my semi.
Point is things could be dummied down and simplified and using the advanced designs of parts and metals the vehicles would still last well over 300,000 miles. Creature comforts don't have to rely on computer control either. Suspension, quality seats, heat and air, hydraulics, gauges and anything I missed..I can't see that any of them ned to be overly complicated or computer controled to work well.
Things like sattelite monitors and such are add on equip and are pretty much self contained so I don't see that they matter. Most of that stuff is prettty much plug and play. It's really like todays equipment is designed in a contest to see who can make the most complicated mess to work on. In part...thats correct too, the shop at my local dealer makes him more money than the equip sales.
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