Taking your car into a "certified mechanic" is recurring revenue. That's the point

I work in automotive. They're are many competent engineers not there are told to act incompetent by management.

Everyone is incompetent these days. When great power is possible without the need for discipline, you get mass incompetency.

Speak for yourself… There are many well designed modern cars. Case in point: https://image.nostr.build/115596000ad3915c2e8eef0202511054cafe92edfe34d23c63348099927cbbce.jpg

The engineers are competent. The designers are competent. The committees are what kill everything. Source: really good, long time friends of over 30 years in both OEM suppliers and customer brands. Example: designers get muted at the brand. Engineers get muted at the OEM suppliers. Also the bea...

Same issue with food design, prioritizing profit over human function.

To make you buy a new one every year. Same problem with phones. They want us all living on debt borrowed from our children.

Maybe cause the money is made in the credit and people don't buy outright. The credit becomes the product, the car is secondary

I blame over regulation.

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