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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's complicated.

As someone who got to see this from the inside:

  1. When constructing a car, one of the key components is the wiring harness that bundles together all the wiring for the vehicle.

Surprisingly most wiring harnesses used to come from Ukraine of all places. So when Russia invaded Ukraine, that completely disrupted the wiring harness supply.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ukraine-invasion-hurts-flow-wire-harnesses-carmakers-2022-03-02/

To work around that, manufacturers had to come up with either new, stable suppliers or invest in their own production lines.

  1. Covid. As mentioned in the article, but there were multiple impacts on that. For example, it made it incredibly difficult to do lease returns. If people leasing their cars can't return them, then they can't get into new vehicles. Similar, re-sellers of lease returns and fleet vehicles have no stock because nobody is returning their lease.

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/07/dealers-brace-for-the-next-pandemic-related-supply-issue-fewer-lease-returns/

  1. Tariffs. Also as noted in the article.
[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is compounded by Manufacturers and legislative bodies forcing driver assistance systems on everyone.

Back when I was a lad, I could drive my manual-transmission vehicle while reading a paper street directory, texting on one phone, talking on another and eating a cheeseburger., Kids nowadays don’t know how to drive.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

I believe that the driver assistance systems encourage inattentive driving. Tesla rightly gets a lot of press for this, but when the car holds the lane and brakes for you 99.9% of the time, it sure seems safe to send that email, formatting and all.

But the problem is that one would require self-awareness to identify what degree of inattentiveness is OK (change the radio station) or not (review the PowerPoint Jane sent over). With our current technology situation, those systems probably are net positive for collision avoidance.

My kids get to learn to drive with all that shite disabled. Except the emergency stuff (auto braking), which seems like a good idea. Check your own blind spot, dummy.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your sarcasm post is actually me xD . Cars should be cars, not computers or entertainment booths. But I actually like driving and mechanical things so im the .0000000001% of lemmy. All my cars are manual and few have AC or ABS. Just how I like it.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just between you, me and the entire Fediverse, I put the sarcasm tags on just in case I offended anyone.

We need better public transport so that those people who are not confident drivers, or are not competent drivers, or are downright incompetent drivers don’t have to drive.

Less roads, less vehicles on the roads mean that those people who do enjoy driving for the sake of driving can still drive, but they are sharing the road with like-minded people. This is my selfish view with altruistic results.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago