Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use

Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by lamontcg on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:20PM (#36442042)

> Given that everyone else wants those bells and whistles

I'd argue that almost nobody else wants all those bells and whistles, but most people want a couple of them. So you wind up with all of them, because people will walk away from a vehicle that doesn't have what they want more than walk away from a vehicle that has too many things they don't.

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Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by shepherdjerred on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:15PM (#36442367)

I like/use all of the features that the parent listed. There are _some_ dumb features, on my car, but most of them I quite like and are a large part of why I bought my car and not a cheaper model/trim.

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Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by vel0city on Friday June 23, 2023 @01:20AM (#36443100)

Almost nobody wants power windows?

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Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by vkou on Friday June 23, 2023 @04:16AM (#36444171)

Or Bluetooth. Or not having to deal with a clutch. Or a window defroster. Or a rear-window wiper. Or cruise control...

I could go on. :)

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Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by lamontcg on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:12PM (#36448876)

My 2000 Ranger has just about all of those. Those clearly aren't the features that are causing QC issues in 2023 models.

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Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by vkou on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:25PM (#36455209)

No, but I'm sure they were causing QC issues in earlier models, before auto manufacturers figured them out.

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Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by aitchnyu on Friday June 23, 2023 @06:49AM (#36445149)

Mirrors the justification for big software: most people use 20% of the features, but that 20% is different for different people.

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Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by lamontcg on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:43PM (#36449302)

Yeah, the analogy to something like Microsoft Office or whatever is pretty straightforwards.

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Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by brewdad on Friday June 23, 2023 @05:50PM (#36452618)

And manufacturers have gotten really good at spreading the most popular features among multiple upgrade packages. You want heated seats and blind-spot monitoring? That's going to be two separate packages that include tons of features you don't really want.

There might be an option to only add the two specific features but that means a custom order that will take months to arrive and probably won't end up saving you much money anyway.

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