When was the last time you didn’t know how to open a car door?
It used to be simple: pull the handle, and it opened. Easy. But lately, some carmakers seem to think that isn’t high-tech enough.
Now, in many new cars, the process goes like this – press a button, wait for the handle to extend, then pull. A tiny extra step, but one you have to repeat every single time.
It feels like another case of “innovation” for the sake of it. A way to make something look futuristic, charge a bit more for it, and even make more money when it breaks later.
We keep adding layers to things that once worked perfectly well – more steps, more systems, more points of failure.
Technology used to simplify life. Now it often feels like effort disguised as progress and complexity disguised as innovation.
Sometimes I wonder – if we can’t keep a door simple, what chance do we have with everything else?