📍’The world’s greatest driving computer isn’t under the bonnet. It’s wearing your hat.’
▪️The human brain consumes around 12 watts of power—less than an old-fashioned lightbulb.
▪️Yet every journey it interprets weather, judges grip, anticipates danger, reads another driver’s intentions and decides whether overtaking is inspired or idiotic
▪️All in the blink of an eye.
▪️Someone recently claimed AI would require billions of watts to process an equivalent amount of information.
▪️Whether the comparison is scientifically perfect is almost beside the point. It reminds us just how extraordinary the human brain really is.
▪️Meanwhile, today’s performance cars are becoming rolling data centres.
▪️Radar, lidar, cameras, machine learning and over-the-air updates now make many modern machines astonishingly capable.
▪️Yet something unexpected is happening.
▪️Technology assumes more of the decision-making.
▪️Yet the market is placing an ever-higher premium on cars that still demand judgement, mechanical sympathy and genuine skill from the person behind the wheel.
▪️A Ferrari F40, Porsche Carrera GT or manual Aston Martin asks for intuition rather than algorithms, commitment rather than convenience.
▪️Perhaps that explains why analogue driver’s cars continue to command such extraordinary respect—and increasingly impressive values.
♔ Fisherley Take
Technology may make cars faster.
📍 ‘Human judgement is what makes them unforgettable.’
