26 Nov
2014
26 Nov
'14
6:01 p.m.
On 11/26/2014 02:22 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Holm
Tiffe"
<holm at freibergnet.de>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 2:06 AM
We do have a special
category in the US for "German
(over)engineering".
I first heard this when a friend of mine in high school
worked over the summer
for a Mercedes dealer. They were talking about automatic
transmissions
that had something like 45 valves in the shift logic, while
US transmissions
typically had 8 or fewer.
I think the basic thrust has always been that the German
engineers missed
the part about doing the most with the minimum number of
moving parts.
Jon
As I wrote before: Do you really think over there
that
all people in
Countries that aren't part of the US are some sort of
Idiots?
I'm a German, are German Engeneeers stupid too?