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Originally Posted by captain swoop
Computers are still a young developing technology. Internal Combustion Engines are an old mature technology. Look at the pace of development of the car in the first half of the 20th Century. Similarly with steam power. New techynologies tend to develope rather quickly.
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The basic principles of internal combustion engines haven't changed in 100 years. The basic principles of thermodynamic engines haven't changed in 250 years. However, anyone who thinks that modern internal combustion engines are much like those of 100 years ago in terms of their engineering finesse doesn't really know much about them. I read a couple of papers recently about capturing unused fluid-dynamics cycles to make exhaust systems more efficient. This is stuff Ford never knew. My expertise has been used on high-end automotive engines, plus I have hands-on experience with a 1917 Ford engine. Dismissing the former as nothing more that 100-year-old technology is pretty naive.
But the real answer is that what comes out as a product is determined only slightly by technological advancement and more importantly instead by commercial viability, which includes very many more factors and variables. Hence I ask where Solomarineris practiced engineering.