Interesting discussion, Phillip, I agree completely. We have too much technology controlling things we don’t need to have controlled. And this adds cost and complexity and reduces reliability and increases maintenance cost.
A big pet peeve of mine is over complicated lighting controls. And went into a friends house, and we could never figure out how to turn on the lights in the living room. Another house I saw had about a half a dozen zones within one living room and as many in the primary bedroom.!
What happened to the simple light switch or simple dimmer switch?
Another example of too much tech is smart keys that come with cars now. They replaced the simple two dollar key. But now we have starting the car issues when the batteries go in the remote control unit, or if we break or lose a unit, it’s as much as $500 to get it replaced and reprogrammed by the dealer.
And there was a case where criminals are able to buy remote control fobs online and use them to remotely start and steal cars, mostly Hyundai and Kia models. A friend of mine who owns a Hyundai was just a victim of a break-in by the thieves, trying to use the fake key fobs. They broke into her car anyway, even though it was an older one with normal key, because they were already there trying to break into it. But at least it didn’t steal it. But they cost thousands of dollars of damage.
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