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by nuancebydefault 705 days ago
> I drive a 2020 Toyota Corolla Hybrid,... it is simple.

No car is simple and certainly not hybrid cars. Just consider the electronics: think 100+ ECUs communicating using dozens of different protocols over hundreds meters of wires, and millions of lines of code running on a diverse set of processors.

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Simple from the user perspective. That’s the point of all of this. It’s can be complicated under the hood, but the IX is simple.
A modern car is a great example of abstraction. There's a lot of functionality and complexity hidden behind a very simple interface.