My car still meets my expectations. Don’t know what the expectations of others are.
These days, every corporation has an IT department, and the phone lines to the “technical difficulties” desk are the busiest.
Decades ago, all you had to do was plug in a cord and turn a knob. The only failure was when you had to get new batteries.
My understanding of how to explain the increasingly flawed nature of technology has to do with its increasing complexity.
It’s simple. As technology becomes more complex, there are more ways for it to fail. By sheer probability, it fails more often.
Depends on the car... The wife’s car’s infotainment system is a technology nightmare. Some S/W updates require you to lock the car and wait 90 minutes for the update to load, it shuts down completely while driving, screens go blank, audio shuts down etc. According to blogs, we’re not alone.