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> I wonder how well my car will age when miscellaneous sensor all over the car start failing. That's just it, the tech is making the cars less reliable. Will all of these bespoke parts be available in 10, 15, 20 years? I would hate to have to dispose of a working car because the dead now obsolete chip on the bespoke LCD dash module shaped like the cars dashboard is no longer in production. I had cars who's odometers…
Note that "cars are getting less reliable" is a gut feeling that many people have, but largely isn't backed by real metrics. When's the last time you saw a broken-down car by the side of the road, and is this happening more or less often than 20 years ago? Do you think cars require more or less upkeep and maintenance than 20 years ago? Yes, cars do have some new components that have introduced new failure modes, and…
Re: Please make a dumb car
#341I think overall you're right but I suspect the proliferation of luxury electronic features has subjected higher class slices of the population to more failures than they saw before. In 2004 these people bought Camrys and drove them uneventfully. The base car hasn't changed but now that car has half a dozen switches and motors in both front seats the failure of any one of which requires it to be fixed. If the lever in your '04 was finicky you just pulled/pushed slightly harder and were not the wiser.