That meme with the refrigerator from the 70s is truth...I was looking at washers and dryers at Lowe's the other day...goodness I don't need Alexa to run every aspect of my life...like my dad always said about cars with power locks and windows...just something else to go wrong that you have to send to the factory to fix...he didn't want anything that he couldn't fix himself
Yep. I had 3 or 4 leg-humpers on here (looking at you @NorthDallas40) try to blame high lumber prices on Biden despite (1) prices being flat during Obama's last term, (2) prices doubling under Trump, and (3) Biden getting prices lower than when he started.
Not sure the strategy would have worked during the pandemic but I remember one of the companies I worked for while going to school..the CEO said...if it has a long shelf life and we know we will need it...we will buy the hell out of it when the price is low, use our back inventory when the prices go up and let the competition worry about shortages and low margins due to high prices
Every new car has the equivalent of an embedded desktop PC controlling its every action. Each mfgr uses their own specified computer (Ford uses a Motorola design in their EEC series for example or it was a Motorola up to EEC-V) but the maintenance port uses a fed standardized port called OBD-II which is On Board Diagnostics Gen 2. There are several other distributed computers for which a common one is the transmission. The car industry is heavily linked to the computer industry.
