| From: | "Stuart M. Willis" <hbiki@****.GEOCITIES.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Rigger & SOTA |
| Date: | Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:41:47 +1100 |
>compared to last years? Not much. If anything at all. Even ten years ago
>cars were in the same ballpark as new cars. They just don't advance as much
>as computers do these days.
They may be more sophisticated, more electronic, but not necessarily better.
I drive a car that is older than I am (a '78 Ford Falcon XC). It is big,
yeah, consumes a lot of petrol, yeah, but I have less problems with it than
a lot of my friends do with their newer, more sophisticated cars.
Like, when I have a flat battery I can still steer. :-)
It doesn't cost me all that much in upkeep each year, maybe a few hundred
to cut out rust, and the occasional new tyre.
So I agree. SOTA should be used sparingly on vehicles. ;-) They're not like
computers. You can still go down the same roads to get to the same
destination pretty much as fast in a car that is many years older. That
doesn't happen with a computer. :-) [I've had this argument wth my mother].
cre,
s.
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