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To: Slagle who wrote (64025)	5/21/2005 8:33:11 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

All new tech is an improving in quality only. There was a leap from a type writer to a word processor and printer. From there we’ve seen only improvement in quality and convenience. We are byuig just quality and convenience when we bought a cassete, then we bought CD and now today MP-3 machines. Photograhy has just had a leap: from film based to CCD based digital. There was a leap from telex to fax. From fax to attachment to an email there were improvements in quality and convenience. We can call a leap from piston engines to jet engines. Then from there to quieter and more fuel efficient jet engines. It’s stuck there since ealier sixties. In case of cars there were no leaps (ok you’d try to persuade me if you are a carmaker, salesman or maketing person). But just look to the windshield wiper and hand brakes. Carmakers are systems’ integrators they just add-on. When we buy a car, we pay, today, to much more add ons plus better desing to survive crashes: electric starters, watch, car radio, heated seats, air-conditioning, side-impact, 4-wheel drives, and motors, lots of small motors, to ajust seats, to change CD’s, to move windows up and down, to throw water on the winddhield and head lamps, Cheaper processors we’ve got electronics systems like electronic fuel injection: ABS, tiptronic gear boxes, airbags, and lots of other gimmicks, The carmakers suppliers improved qualiy on their side: Better tires, better lubricants oil, more plastic less steel parts, better lights, sealed radiators, longer lasting batteries, automaic gear boxes, Cosmetics: cruise control, beeping doors, beeping overspeed If I look to the flying coffin I drove when I was a field engineer 27 years ago. images.google.com It is a museum piece. I rode a taxi –a Paykan 42 year old design- over the weekend here and could feel what it was. images.google.com