Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use

Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by nindalf on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:29AM (#36448234)

My comment was in response to a person who said “why can’t manufacturers make something that appeals to my specific tastes?”

The answer is, there’s no future in serving tiny niches. Due to economies of scale it makes sense to target larger segments. Kinda like a government trying to please everyone.

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Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by tiedieconderoga on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:29PM (#36449115)

Good point.

I, and I suspect many others, would still pay $40K for a specialty base model which would only cost $30K if it sold in mass-market quantities.

Large companies in oligopolic positions won't try to produce those sorts of products, because it's risky and they have no reason to innovate or seek untapped markets.

It feels like it would be possible if we could incentivize competition and disincentive consolidation, though. Not just in the auto market, either.

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Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by JohnFen on Friday June 23, 2023 @02:05PM (#36450289)

True. It's just a shame that our economy is unable to produce a car that I would buy.

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Re:Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use by red-iron-pine on Friday June 23, 2023 @03:51PM (#36451450)

there was a tv show about this...

"The Homer" -- https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/The_Homer

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