With the finishing of Don Sharp’s Under the Hood, we are official done with the $100 course pack. A very strange yet interesting two pages from what seemed like a grumpy old mechanic criticizing our society. The excerpt starts out by telling the reader that Don runs his own mechanic shop in which he fixes up cars real problems without scheming them out of money like a real auto shop would do. Sharp discusses some common car parts and how they work, as well as some common problems. He begins to talk about how mechanics really don’t understand what is going on under the hood and how they get paid in any event regardless if they fix your car or not.
Sharp speaks a lot about the “cause and effect” relationship and how both drivers and mechanics gave up worrying about this. Drivers assign responsibility for the car’s smooth running to someone else. They never believe that their actions were the ones that damaged the car. While the mechanic does not attend tot eh behavior of the car instead he consults charts and tries option B if A was unsuccessful. Sharp says two thirds of batteries, starters, alternators, ignition coils, carburetors, and water pumps that are sold are not needed. That if the mechanic knew enough about the car or decided to look deeper they would realize the true problem might only be cleaning battery terminals. He faults the people though saying if they decided to study the cause and effect of the events that took place under their hood they might be able to distinguish this problem and prevent spending all that money.
If people were more simulation literate they would be willing to accept responsibility for their machines it would added to the sense of individual worth and of the moral strength of the culture. Sharp says a person who looks into the cause and effect relationships shows a lot about their morals and character.
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