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| Authored by: Doghouse on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 05:04 AM EDT |
Note though that almost every different model of car on the roads has subtly
different controls - effectively its own API. Many Americans raised on automatic
gearboxes would struggle to drive my right-hand-drive, manual gearbox Ford, for
example, even though Ford are an American company. And if anyone needed to open
the tailgate using the key-fob, I guarantee most would be reduced to either
reading the manual (effectively the API definition) or sheer hit-and-miss
experimentation; there is little industry-wide agreement on how such function
should be implemented (nor indeed much need for any such agreement).
The
steering wheel, by contrast, is an example of a requirement on every such API
(fine control of direction) that has a solution so well-established that it's
become a de facto standard, and no-one normally opts for an
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 09:20 AM EDT |
Those of us that learned to drive a few years back can remember when each
car/model had it's own unique API - the sequence of gears might be different,
the function of the levers on the steering column, location of speedometer, etc.
Someone (maybe the FEDs, maybe the industry, ...) standardized them so you
might have a chance of turning on the wipers in a strange car (i.e., a rental)
when it rained.
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- Car Analogy - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 11:01 AM EDT
- Car Analogy - Authored by: eachus on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 11:18 PM EDT
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