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so why is most of industry off shore because designers are forced to design to a minimum and a price and a marketing stratergy,
then 6 months later an off shore company has taken that design to a higher standard and along with it your company's market share.
this is true of electronics and american made cars because the american public will by anything big and flashy, that is all the maketing people care about, not how good it is.
cadilac stopped making big cars and lost market share to suv's so they reluctantly made suv's
harley davidson would have gone many years ago to the onslaut of japanese imports if the ragan administration hadn't stepped in, because they were making the same product for too long with no new, and i mean really new designs.
look at chrysler, most if not all of their product line is imported technology, the same applies to ford, using their european models in the u.s. marketplace.
when did toyota import american technology to japan, answer, just after ww11 and they improved it to a point where it is better than anything else in the marketplace, certainly anything designed "here" for the big three.
china is outstipping the u.s. in major engineering projects world wide, why is that, because profits are all that matters here, but to china its national pride and a footprint in the world, just like it used to be here 50 or so years ago.
if you take the design to its ultimate then you are ready for any and every competitor that is trying to upstage your product and steal your market with a better product.
until american industry understands this, then we are doomed to fail.
the day will come when there really is nothing new, no new inventions or ideas and its not far away folks, most things we see today are just old stuff reworked.
take direct injection, this is what they are selling us now, well go look at a mercedes 300 sl gullwing, no not the new one, the one sterling moss won the mile milia with, yup there it is direct injection, in modern stuff its just electrified.
you might ask why , if its that old, didn't it catch on with other manufacturers, because the average car owner has no idea what is under the hood and carbs are cheap, even to this day, economy is not the main reason americans buy cars.
do you not think that if it weren't for the EPA or CARB, we would be driving gas guzzlers and living in a permanent fog while the rest of the world moved on, then when there was a gas cricise, imports would step in and kill the domestic car market, oh, it already happened, twice.
here in arizona, i have noticed something i did not see in other states i have lived in, this may be a trend affecting the rest of the country, i don't know for sure but everything here is done half assed, yes its done but it could be done better, its like a sort of aperthy.
if, to use your example of a bridge, most of the bridges in america, as you say are designed t "just stand", what happens when they run over their expected life span, fortunately for us, most were designed many years ago and not to "just stand" but to be more than was required at the time, lasting long past their sell by date.
a "that will do for now" attitude has infected everything and people are getting used to it.
sorry for the rant but it is like a desease infecting everything we touch and nobody, especially americans, have any interest in correcting the situation.
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