“How else are all those engineers and marketing people and factory tooling people going to justify their ongoing employment?”
They won’t too bad... Minimal loss of jobs in comparison to the bigger picture. It has already been done in history and the country survived it fine. In fact the economy as a whole did better because cars were more affordable. No one makes money if they sit on the lot and don’t sell. The thousands of assembly workers are sent home. Then on top of that the taxpayers will have to bail them out again.
The yearly cycle has to stop and 3-4 year runs with only a grill change like they used to do would be a huge start. And they were better made cars! We would not have even got into that stupid chip situation. No one was smart enough to figure out how to just use last years chips as soon as they saw a problem coming? That was the stupidest thing I ever saw... Let all those cars just go to waste because they didn’t want to redesign a computer board on the fly to use last years chips. Really?
They must think we are stupid, That was pure negligence with the full intentions of getting bailed out. Maybe we are if we fell for that scam...
“No one was smart enough to figure out how to just use last years chips as soon as they saw a problem coming? That was the stupidest thing I ever saw... Let all those cars just go to waste because they didn’t want to redesign a computer board on the fly to use last years chips. Really?”
This isn’t 1970 with discrete components and analog signals. ASICs and boards and digital busses are designed years in advance and highly integrated.