>>28611269 (OP)
american designs are often simple and cheap. japanese designs are often simple and reliable. german designs are complicated and expensive.
when german machinery works perfectly, it’s second to none. but it requires a very punctual maintenance schedule to not only maintain the system, but prevent it from catastrophic failure, which owners rarely follow. so secondhand german cars are often worse than american or japanese counterparts
heres an example: my wife’s jeep will turn on the foglight for one side of the car if you turn the steering wheel that way. It’s pretty much an if-else with hysteresis, maybe 100 total lines of code. the German method would be 1000 lines of code, or a completely different design altogether. like including servo motors to turn the physical headlight beam instead of just illuminating a fixed light. so you can see how these little systems add cost
