• qevlarr@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I’m partial to this explanation, what do you people think? I’m not an expert

    Summary: Western car makers don’t make cars, they assemble cars from parts they buy. Their business is procurement and they don’t engineer the car from the ground up to meet a product vision. Rather, they’re trying to make something from the same old parts and suppliers of the internal combustion engine times.

    It’s “nobody gets fired for buying IBM” but for cars

    https://youtu.be/UhhZu0ZHdw4