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learning to be a car mechanic presumably doesnt require lots of discourse about henry ford's original design choices, so i do not understand why philosophy discourse is uh... the way it is

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Learning to design cars probably does

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does it tho? i would imagine most car discourse for car design revolves around much more recent developments, and would relate to henry ford as an important but as primitive/less advanced, where the designer now has more knowledge

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Ah I misinterpreted you You’re right, learning to design cars looks like fast forwarding through the history of cars (or engines, or gearboxes or whatever) and then talking a lot about stuff from the last 20 years But then, 20 years proportional to the dawn of the car is…

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