Comment by ACCount37

Comment by ACCount37 8 hours ago

A lot of users have an extreme level of resistance to learning tech. Which applies even to the most simple of instruction-following operations.

They aren't clinically retarded. They could learn those things if someone forced them to. But you, as a product developer, can't force them. It's utterly impractical to overcome that resistance for a mass market product.

It's easier to make a car that doesn't require oil changes than it is to make every car owner learn to perform oil changes.

potato3732842 6 hours ago

>It's easier to make a car that doesn't require oil changes than it is to make every car owner learn to perform oil changes.

No, it's not. There's fairly low level physics and chemistry reasons you can't make a car that doesn't need oil changes. Oil changes could be about as difficult as swapping out toner cartridges if they cared to make it that way though.

Please keep your Prius out of the left lane.

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ACCount37 5 hours ago

EVs are on the roads right now, and most of them don't require oil changes at all. The oil in sealed in the gearbox, with no combustion to foul it, and is rated for the lifetime of the entire car.
And, have you ever seen a user? Like, an actual user, in person? 1 user in 5 is capable of swapping out toner cartridges. Kicking the can to the tech support dept (for oil changes: to the service shops) is how it's done in real life.

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- potato3732842 5 hours ago
  
  >EVs are on the roads right now, and most of them don't require oil changes at all. The oil in sealed in the gearbox, with no combustion to foul it, and is rated for the lifetime of the entire car.
  You're being misleading. Nobody is changing the comparable oils in their ICE car with any serious regularity either. When people talk about oil changes they're talking about motor oil.
  >And, have you ever seen a user? Like, an actual user, in person? 1 user in 5 is capable of swapping out toner cartridges.
  99/10 can probably read the instructions and do it themselves if they care to try.
  >Kicking the can to the tech support dept (for oil changes: to the service shops) is how it's done in real life.
  Yes, that's how it's done in the office where you have people who's job it is to do those things. Are you incapable of emptying your trash can because the janitor does it? Even the most useless people living within the highest touch HOAs are changing their own printer ink and cleaning out the garbage collector in their dishwasher and the filter in their HVAC. There's no reason the basic stuff on a car couldn't be on that level of complexity.
  
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  ACCount37 4 hours ago
  
  > if they care to try
  You need to have that "if" reviewed by a regulatory body - with how much load you make it bear.
  The issue isn't that 99 users out of 100 are actually retarded and incapable of doing a thing. The issue is that they don't want to. And wouldn't want to. And you would need multiple generational leaps in mind control technology to change that at scale.
  
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jojobas 5 hours ago

Some 45% of current Americans around 25 years old hold an Associate degree or above.

Looks like you're telling us that US college is on par with changing car oil.

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