Time was when you could tell if there was something wrong with your car because of the sound and feel of it, or the fact it wouldn't start at all. Diagnosis of the problem was a relatively simple affair and was either bloody obvious or a process of elimination.
These days cars are far more complex and virtually every subsystem is monitored by a sensor of some description connected to a computer and a dashboard readout. The problem is that the sensors themselves are subject to failure and, 9 times out of 10, any alert to a problem is invariably a failure of the sensor itself and not of the subsystem it is monitoring. At least that's my experience over the last 15 months of working with cars.
I sometimes wonder whether all this sensor technology is a ploy to give car dealers more cash.
I receive an alert from the LibDems (are female LibDems called LibFems?) today.
I do question their use of a Dominic Cummings stunt double in their advert...
No comments:
Post a Comment