Anyone is like me, that prefers factory options and non DIY stuff?
I saw a commerical for a Toyota Coaster, with an expensive refrigerator option. Most people would think: why not just glue on your home refrigerator?
I did some research, and there were lots of complicated stuff like AC/DC, wirings, and other logic failures, like failing to detect the voltage supplied by the engine, and thus draining the bus' battery overnight.
Similarly, lots of people may have second thought about factory turbo options: conservatively tuned, underpowered, and expensive. But the reality is that if you bolted a turbo in, you will have to deal with the engineering yourself; ECU tunes and integration with the rest of the engine, etc.
Finally, I saw many people trying to DIY fix their earbuds by swapping motherboards; the problem is that you are not only swapping the part, but you also have to program the logic yourself and all the edge cases that you will not know until you have real trouble with the device, hence, the constant firmware updates.
If you want to experience bad engineering in a cheap and safe way: Just buy a nameless pair of earbuds from Taobao, and you'll get what I mean: you will spend a lot of time fighting it, having to rely on low-level indicators (like lights).
Getting things to fire up is extremely easy, perfecting reliability is extremely difficult and is a multi-year affair.
I saw a commerical for a Toyota Coaster, with an expensive refrigerator option. Most people would think: why not just glue on your home refrigerator?
I did some research, and there were lots of complicated stuff like AC/DC, wirings, and other logic failures, like failing to detect the voltage supplied by the engine, and thus draining the bus' battery overnight.
Similarly, lots of people may have second thought about factory turbo options: conservatively tuned, underpowered, and expensive. But the reality is that if you bolted a turbo in, you will have to deal with the engineering yourself; ECU tunes and integration with the rest of the engine, etc.
Finally, I saw many people trying to DIY fix their earbuds by swapping motherboards; the problem is that you are not only swapping the part, but you also have to program the logic yourself and all the edge cases that you will not know until you have real trouble with the device, hence, the constant firmware updates.
If you want to experience bad engineering in a cheap and safe way: Just buy a nameless pair of earbuds from Taobao, and you'll get what I mean: you will spend a lot of time fighting it, having to rely on low-level indicators (like lights).
Getting things to fire up is extremely easy, perfecting reliability is extremely difficult and is a multi-year affair.
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