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Termyn8or -> RE: Ford Passing Toyota in U.S. Market (2/13/2010 9:48:20 PM)
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Sorry if I again take too globalistic an approach to this than expected.
Man has civilisation, bulds machines. Eventually becomes dependent upon machines. Machines break and cannot be fixed. Die.
Yup. First of all no matter what anyone says, an accelerator is like the trigger of a gun. You do not use electronics. Brakes are necessary, therefore you do not use electronics. Similarly with steering. This is your life, and these devices rely on semiconductor technology. Take steering, some idiot was talking about electric power steering, how great it would be because you could steer if the engine failed. BUT, on the other side of the coin, if one transistor in an array shorts out, it will force the wheel to steer to one side, and some may not be strong enough to fight it, nor even become aware fast enough in say, dense traffic. I would never buy such a car.
Electronic throttles are just as stupid. In a properly designed vehicle the gas pedal goes to a cable that operates the throttle valve. It is resisted by a spring. If the spring does not break, it lasts forever. But some idiots think the way to warm up a car is to rev it, which is untrue. And then there is the "advent" of traction control systems because people don't know how to drive. The don't know that if they have it floored and the speedometer says 90 MPH and they are not moving, they don't need to press the gas harder. So now their lame asses need control on the fucking gas pedal of their car ? Bullshit. If you can stop the actuation of the throttle with electronics, you therefore must actuate it with electronics. And like any other time, any transistor can and does short out anytime, resulting in unwanted output, such as full throttle acceleration through a busload of schoolkids.
Brakes, need I say more ? It took near a hundred years to get close to the perfect system, hydraulic not mechanical. Well it is but uses fluid. Highly refined and perfected this marvelous braking system has saved countless lives through the years. Since disc brakes, heavywall steel tubing and double flaring of the fittings, it has become penultimate in reliability. So let's change it ! Let's make these three thousand dollar modules people have to replace, and fuck the whole thing up with complexity so nobody can fix it. Be dammed if people die, we need the money. We have shareholders to whom to answer.
Just give me a 1969 Chevy pickup truck. I would buy one new if I could. I can buy a new car really, but I do not want what they have. I don't want all the bullshit, I want what works.
The point of my whole post is this, all of this shit gets so new and improved that it isn't worth shit anymore. So it happened to Toyota, big deal. But I wouldn't even drive a car with an electronic accelerator, let alone buy one.
What came around is going around.
T
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