Maybe not if it's a Honda or something, but European cars are famous for being shitily made. While some people rant about American car reliability, recent surveys usually put Japanese cars on top, then American cars, then in a distant third is European cars. Porsche is made by Volkwagen if that gives you any indication. Volkwagen also owns Audi, and we know how shitty those are.
Does that mean Porsche has a major share of the responsibility for why VW and Audi vehicles are plagued with problems? I just don't trust Europeans with electricity.
How many things am I supposed to be fucking with? Now I need to deal with the car, the heated seat, the heat from the engine, my gloves, AND a heated steering wheel? This shit is too complicated.
Of course if you had a cloth steering wheel instead of leather, you wouldn't need it to be heated in the first place. That's something I've never understood about leather in cars. You know leather has very high heat conductivity, you know it's brutally hot when it's hot and you know it's icy cold when it's cold, but you pick it anyway then try to fix your own self inflicted problem by heating or cooling the material that has high heat conductivity. It makes absolutely no sense.
I should upstage everyone and put copper mesh on my seats. When it's hot, it should be painful to sit in the car without first running the AC for 5 minutes. That's how hardcore rich I am
The gloves I wear for clearing off snow and driving are just your standard $1 gloves from the dollar store.
I live in Edmonton, Canada. Cold days are about -30C. Most winter days are around -10C to -20C. Right now it's -16C.
Maybe not if it's a Honda or something, but European cars are famous for being shitily made. While some people rant about American car reliability, recent surveys usually put Japanese cars on top, then American cars, then in a distant third is European cars. Porsche is made by Volkwagen if that gives you any indication. Volkwagen also owns Audi, and we know how shitty those are.
We were going to use fuses and insulated wires but we found out we could save exactly 3 marks per car if we used wires with no insulation and filled the fuse block with solder instead of fuses. I sent the proposal to my supervisor in Munich and he was so excited about the idea that he gave me a promotion. Lately he's started calling me "das jude" which I think is German for "my friend"
While I agree with your conclusion, your premise is faulty. Everything you mentioned requires very low current as it is just control circuitry. A resistive heat element requires orders of magnitude more current, meaning that a good amount more engineering has to go into the slip rings and such.
When do written words and ideas expire? Do they stay fresh longer if I keep them in the fridge?
They don't really get that hot.
No need for slip rings. The wheel has a fixed angular range of motion, simply design a harness that can withstand a few turns.
