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In article <3nev9917ml1qia8dnio21g19svqtffiqg8@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>wrote:

Eric Stevens
How do you think they know what needs adjusting? They know because the driver tells them. There will be discussion over the details (as no adjustment affects only one aspect of the car's performance) but the top drivers have major technical input.

nospam
they can report the symptoms they encountered and offer input as to how the car is performing. drivers do that every day when they bring a car in for service.

however, they don't need to know how to fix the car or tune it to perform the way they want. that's for the mechanics to do.

Eric Stevens
All the top drivers have consideraable insight into the operation of the car and input into the way the car is set up. No two cars in the top teams handle the same way: they have been individually setup to the requirements of the individual drivers.

nospam
they have insight in how to race and what they need out of the car.

they don't need to know auto mechanics to do that, although they might want to.

see the difference?

Eric Stevens
The problem is that you have a narrow understanding. It's up to the architect to decide where he wants to. It's the programmer who has to take him. This only works if the architect has some understanding of what is possible.

nospam
he doesn't need to know what's possible and it's probably better if he doesn't.

Eric Stevens
Haw!

nospam
what's so funny?

kids don't know (yet) what's possible or not and their imaginations sometimes gets adults thinking in ways they wouldn't otherwise and sometimes the kids themselves come up with new ideas the adults thought weren't possible.

he might think something is not possible and then not ask for it, not realizing that someone who knows more than he does can do it and might even have already done it in another project.

i've seen that happen a lot.

Eric Stevens
Top architects/engineers do not work that way. They are always pushing the limits.

nospam
the better ones do.

ask for the impossible, then see how close you can get. if you have the best engineers, you might be surprised.

as i said, i've seen it happen, and it's not that rare. sometimes you have to think out of the box.