Comments by "Joe Qi" (@i6power30) on "Mazda's Iconic SP is the most complicated electric / rotary car ever made" video.

Japanese people have a tendency to keep improving and perfecting something once they are good at it, even if it becomes obsolete such as internal combustion engine. Katana etc.
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@paulb1951 just as in 1885, horse carriages were still used everywhere and if one was to choose a career to design a new horse carriage or upcoming automobile, I'd choose the latter. I see Japan will still be spending much resources to improve that 0.1% efficiency and power out of internal combustion engines in 20 years while the rest of world has leaped forward. Simply because their companies and engineers don't want to change and top comfortable with status quo.
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@paulb1951 ok ok you are right. Ice is not obsolete. You win. But trying not to be stuck on the definition but look at the spirit of what I'm saying. Japan is pouring resources into a dead end technology instead of trying to truly innovate meaningfully.
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