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   Dan Luu (danluu@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 11:06:28 JST Dan Luu

   I find it interesting that one of the most common replies to https://mastodon.social/@danluu/111643026109666672 is something like "this is why I'd never buy a car with a computer in it" / "that's less than 15 years old", etc., and that a lot of people generally think that cars are now less reliable.

   I haven't pulled it up again, but from having skimmed it in the past, I feel like the data for cars getting more reliable is very strong and that cars have been getting more reliable basically since the creation of the car.

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     Dan Luu (danluu@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 11:06:28 JST Dan Luu

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     There's too much data for a Mastodon thread, but you can see this in reliability surveys of cars, not just in the data itself, but in what questions people even bother asking on reliability surveys

     In my lifetime, Consumer Reports reviewed how reliably cars started. It would be absurd to review that today, but many new cars used to have trouble starting. Now, that's so rare that a friend of mine pointed out that I trended on reddit, twice, for posting a photo of a car not starting.

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     Dan Luu (danluu@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 11:06:28 JST Dan Luu

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     It's trendy to say that everything sucks now and a thread about this goes viral every month, e.g., this was just at the top of HN.

     Someone rebuts this with data, and someone says "is there anything you've bought new in the last _ten_ years that you still have?", apparently thinking that nothing you buy nowadays lasts ten years???

     It's quite odd to think that nothing lasts for years anymore, but there's this weird mood affiliation that causes people think this is a reasonable rebuttal.

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