Well put, Gary. Likewise, the days when young kids could get started in electronics by tinkering with their parent's tube radio or hi-fi are long gone. Open any piece of modern electronics and you'll find nothing in there that can be worked on. Multi-layer circuit boards and fine-pitch surface-mount components cannot be worked on by normal humans, unlike the exposed wiring and great big grabbable components that earlier products contained. I expect that old-timey ham radio operators and DIY gadget builders notice that "kids these days" don't know how anything electrical works. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott On 8/14/2008 12:12 PM Gary Lee www.vwrack.com wrote: > Today's young people may be mechanical nitwits, but I wouldn't say > they are nitwits. Not that anybody has, but I gotta stick up for them. > > Modern cars are very complex. Complicated cars are harder to repair > than simple cars. Most people would also agree that with that > complexity we also get far lower emissions and higher safety than > vanagon era cars. So it's easy to see why repairing one's own car is > not within the scope of a lot of people nowadays. > > Want a simple car? Too bad we can't buy third world market car in > North america. Like an Indian Tata, it's simple and cheap. What you > loose out on is comfort, safety and lower emissions. > > Gary Lee > |
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