So much software, and so much hardware, is increasingly fragile and failure-prone thanks to the fundamental foolishness of the low-status men who design products without ever thinking once about those who will actually use them and the evil corpocrats who think only of how to monopolize and control their customers:
My wife’s Volvo -has no oil dipstick-. You have to start the engine (requiring power), navigate through the touchscreen computer (a complex expensive part set prone to failure), then trust a sensor reading the oil level for you not to be faulty. It doesn’t tell you how many quarts are present, only ‘min/max’ with no numbers & min isn’t zero. And the display doesn’t even update after adding oil, until you drive it for 20 minutes then park with engine off for five minutes on level ground.
I am ready to CHIMP. Of course this is just one instance of a larger pattern to turn motor vehicles into ‘black box’ appliances.
Oil dipsticks are basic & cheap. They allow your eyes to get instant, trustworthy feedback. They have been standard in vehicles, I suppose, since the Model T. -And you took it away-, out of what I presume is spite, or an attempt to hamstring owners, nudging them to dealers for the most minor tasks.
@VolvoCarUSA What in the name of Christ in heaven possessed the brains of your engineers to inflict this ‘design’ on us? I should always be able to discern, instantly & infallibly, the level of a mission-critical fluid without intermediaries or ungraceful, inscrutable failure points.
This sort of bad and evil design needs to be rejected by those who understand that the primary purpose of a thing is to be used effectively and efficiently and everything else is, at best, secondary.