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When the future of technology extends to the frontier's it can create quite an interesting set of dynamics.
As cars become more and more advanced, with integrated computers and more computing power than the average home, the difficulties began as you move away from the source of that technology.
Most modern day mechanics fault find with a laptop, plug it in, look up the diagnostic code and viola there is your problem.
However as s you progress away from the source of the technology you encounter cities even entire countries that have no technological support.
Some of these places don't even have tarred roads, villages without electricity.
What occurs when you drive your new 21st century vehicle into the technological equivalent of the 1980's and your mechanic has never seen or owned a laptop? When the nearest dealer is over 1000 miles away?
What do you do when the warning lights begin to pop up on your dashboard? and they will because as you travel away from the forefront of technology you also encounter other problems like poor fuel, extreme dust / heat / cold. A million things your new car was not equipped to deal with.
(A Land Rover service interval is 25 000km in Europe, 15 000km in America and environs and 6 000km every where else.)
This is where the old school trumps new school, I have seen some mechanics in the middle of nowhere find a work around on the most complicated faults. Every possible warning light would be up on the dash, yet with a bit of mechanical knowledge and some hard work the car is up and running again.
A modern mechanic (Commonly know in today's parlance as part fitters) would have been at a loss out there in the sticks without his laptop and his parts bin.
The further away from the technology you get the better the abilities of the old school people seems to be, they have to or all this new tech will become useless to them.
As cars become more and more advanced, with integrated computers and more computing power than the average home, the difficulties began as you move away from the source of that technology.
However as s you progress away from the source of the technology you encounter cities even entire countries that have no technological support.
Some of these places don't even have tarred roads, villages without electricity.
What occurs when you drive your new 21st century vehicle into the technological equivalent of the 1980's and your mechanic has never seen or owned a laptop? When the nearest dealer is over 1000 miles away?
(A Land Rover service interval is 25 000km in Europe, 15 000km in America and environs and 6 000km every where else.)
This is where the old school trumps new school, I have seen some mechanics in the middle of nowhere find a work around on the most complicated faults. Every possible warning light would be up on the dash, yet with a bit of mechanical knowledge and some hard work the car is up and running again.
A modern mechanic (Commonly know in today's parlance as part fitters) would have been at a loss out there in the sticks without his laptop and his parts bin.
The further away from the technology you get the better the abilities of the old school people seems to be, they have to or all this new tech will become useless to them.
