What can software development learn from the motor racing industry? By the 1970's we began to see over specialisation of drivers and designers leading to drivers who knew little about how their cars worked. Jackie Stewart, 3 times F1 world champion, coined the phrase "Mechanical Sympathy" as a term for the driver and the machine working together in harmony. This can be summarised in that a driver does not need to know how to build an engine but they need to know the fundamentals of how one works to get the best out of it.
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