Government Forced Planned Obsolescence
Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 7 months ago to Government
Excerpt:
"Today, the obsoleting is designed in.
You are all-but-physically forced to get rid of what you’re driving when a functionally fundamental component such as the transmission fails (let alone the engine). For these components are designed stay in production about as long as the model of car they’re installed in does – which is about 4-8 years, typically – and to be replaced rather than repaired when they fail – at a cost that is frequently too high in both absolute terms and relative to the worth of the car, itself.
It may not be deliberate obsolescing, as the designing is a function of the governing, but the end result is the same."
"Today, the obsoleting is designed in.
You are all-but-physically forced to get rid of what you’re driving when a functionally fundamental component such as the transmission fails (let alone the engine). For these components are designed stay in production about as long as the model of car they’re installed in does – which is about 4-8 years, typically – and to be replaced rather than repaired when they fail – at a cost that is frequently too high in both absolute terms and relative to the worth of the car, itself.
It may not be deliberate obsolescing, as the designing is a function of the governing, but the end result is the same."
This is what happens when you have Cash for Clunkers. Do any of you remember that nonsense from 2009?
I've said it before, but I'll say it again: There seem to very few people interested in driving well, considering that driving poorly can get you killed!
BTW, yes, my car is a stick. Out of habit, I still heel-and-toe and double-clutch on my downshifts!
Fast forward to six months ago. My 2009 sports car developed low compression. Replacing or rebuilding the engine would cost twice what the car was worth. Bye car.
I look around today and wonder if any of these cars will become "collectible". Is anyone really going to want a 2022 Tesla 40 years from now? Or even a Camaro/Mustang/Corvette/Challenger? Sadly, I think not.
In some ways I feel like a dinosaur myself. Maybe I need a new screen name, following Allosaur's example!
TV are just tossed, hard to repair, if even possible, for the flat screen ones, all one bit circuit board
hell, they even consider We the People to be disposable, replaceable (hence all the il-legal aliens)
but when something goes bad you must replace an entire board instead of
finding/replacing the sing;e bad part. The latter process costs more in labor
(finding the bad part) than replacing the entire board. Lots of waste when
replacing an entire board. Machines can make the entire boards but can't
debug and fix them. That requires expensive human labor.
Perhaps the manufacturer is short sighted because he isn't considering the
long term costs of waste.