The Microchip Shortage to Persist for...YEARS?!

DID YOU KNOW:

...That the microchip shortage that’s causing such a massive economic impact to the automotive industry world-wide is rooted in China? A manufacturing plant fire is blamed and has forced huge backlogs. Word now is it may take two years to resume normal chip deliveries — TWO YEARS! The good news is the rest of the industrial world isn’t buying into it. Samsung, for one, like South Korea, is investing millions toward developing a microchip replacement that could come to market much sooner. Both Ford Motor Company and General Motors are busy at this end developing components for their vehicles that aren’t so dependent on microchips for operation. The hard lesson here is NEVER again put yourself in a single source dependent position.

...That the wheelbase on a modern Formula One race car is so long (which makes the car very stable) that retiring F1 drivers should consider careers as limo drivers? Back in the day, F1 cars had much shorter wheelbases which made them very quick to respond to driver inputs and quicker in tight corners. We suspect that drivers would find them much harder to control than today’s cars. Wonder which era had/has the better drivers?

...That referring to an internal combustion power plant as a “motor” is technically incorrect? Though most of us in the business have fallen into that habit, motors are electric and engines are fuel feed internal combustion power units. Small point but worth noting.