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Cars & Microchip Shortages.
Don’t you remember those days when you could buy a car and drive it home the very same day without any problems?
‘Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political, and social systems.’
I think.
Cars certainly are not designed nor built these days as they used to be, are they?
No.
Remember, before car-building automation? Before the dawn of the computing age and of advanced robotics, most vehicle assembly line workers did everything by hand or used wires and cables for actual fabrication practices, according to ‘Motor Cities,’ automotive historian and researcher (Tate, R. published 22.08.2017.)
During the early days of Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford’s vision for a moving assembly line was realized in the famous Highland Park Assembly Plant. Ford imagined a manufacturing system in which workers would be responsible for assembling a portion of the automobile while the bodies were constantly moving forward. When a Model T reached the end of the line, the operators would drive the newly assembled cars off the…
