Examples of mundane daily chores like "driving a car" to explain a complex thought is simple yet powerful. We use our inherent understanding of the daily chore to understand a different abstract idea, like strategy of a company being " direction, talent and basic controls". we find it easy to understand the concept and need for each of the components as we make association to known accepted knowledge of driving the car - steering wheel for direction , gas pedal for the power bit, and basic controls for keeping us in the speed limit. Our unquestioned understanding and acceptance of the chore of driving a car helps us get over questioning the abstractness of the idea we are trying to present/explain/analyze.
The problem lies in incomplete or inaccurate choice of example. If example's components are not completely in sync with the prongs of the main idea, the risk of the idea being questioned is high, not the example's validity. Realignment of thoughts are necessary in that scope of time to come up with a new example. For example - if the last corellation of driving a car - for. eg. the car's dashboard was not recognized to be a valid candidate for being an example of basic controls of organization, we question the example or even worse, the idea is not complete.
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