What's been a backwards step in technology for you?
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midlife
Guru
Is that the system thieves opened with a tennis ball with a slit in it? Slit over the lock, bang the tennis ball.?
- Location
- London
Don't think so.
The system inside the car was pneumatic (maybe they all are) - loads of plastic tubes with various connectors - but it was actuated by the remote key. I assumed the fault was caused by a leak somewhere as from my minimal peering, the initial actuation seemed to be happening - I do remember the bill for such a tiddly thing being mind boggling - I didn't pay as it was a company car.
midlife
Guru
Ha! Checked with snopes and its a fake story going back to at leat 2007
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/can-unlock-car-door-tennis-ball/
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Cars from before keyless were easy to steal as well I believe so what is the problem? Anti theft devices have been around long before keyless.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Talking to a machine when you phone an organisation and having to key in loads of numbers before given the chance to talk to somebody, if you are lucky.
Smokin Joe
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Don't get me started on those feckin' things. What idiot thought it would be a good idea to have the lead coming out of the wrong end?These, where the lead comes out of the top of the plug, so that they don't fit more than one in a 3-way adaptor or in a 6 way (3x2) block - very helpful.View attachment 545938
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Even if you do get to talk to somebody, they are probably only giving you 5% of their attention because they are busy updating their facebook profile or swiping left/right on Tinder. (How else can one explain a call centre worker repeatedly insisting that a cremated parent be brought to the phone to close their account?
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Someone whose power sockets were fitted too close to the floor?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
The difference is that people died without heart surgery, penicillin, and that sort of stuff. No one one died from living their lives without a smartphone - lack of Faecesbook or Just Eat isn't usually fatal.
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gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
20 years ago i worked citrus packing machines, relatively simple in principle, capable of packing 35 packs per minute and could last 10s of millions of packs (with regular maintenance and occasional breakdowns of course).
20 years later and two generations of machines later, they are infinately more complex, infinately more expensive to repair and maintain, take a lot more maintenance, are far far more complex to fault find on, far far more spares required to keep them running, more expense....and they perform the same task, at the same rate the first generation of machines did.
A triumph of marketing and increasing their profitability through complex, high maintenance machines.
20 years later and two generations of machines later, they are infinately more complex, infinately more expensive to repair and maintain, take a lot more maintenance, are far far more complex to fault find on, far far more spares required to keep them running, more expense....and they perform the same task, at the same rate the first generation of machines did.
A triumph of marketing and increasing their profitability through complex, high maintenance machines.
- Location
- Inside my skull
and cost a fortune if they need replacing
- Location
- Inside my skull
Indeed the truth is, it needed to be a squash ball, yellow dot.
- Location
- London
