Rod Speed udtrykte præcist:
Huge wrote
William Sommerwerck wrote

His basic premise makes sense -- more components = lower reliability --
but the fact is that one can easily find electronic devices 50 and 60
years old that have never been serviced that continue to work. Members of
this group probably own them.

This is a category error.

No.

Yes, we all have 'n' year old electronic devices, because we have thrown
away the ones that have failed.

And yet cars are in fact MUCH more reliable now even tho they have a lot more
components than they used to have.

My Yaris ran on 3 cylinders. First I changed spark plugs, because that
what usually worked on old cars. But even with a gap of 1.5mm, the
spark was fine.
So I hooked up the OBD-2 reader: Engine misfire cylinder 1.
I exchanged two "spark plug caps" which is really the ignition coil and
some electronics, one unit per cylinder.
Now "Engine misfire cylinder 3"
So a "new" used unit from a junk yard gotthe car running again.
The car only had run 460000km, not sure when, if ever, the spark plugs
had been changed.

So new cars are MUCH more reliable.

Leif

--
Husk kørelys bagpå, hvis din bilfabrikant har taget den idiotiske
beslutning at undlade det.