Java Generics WildCard Question: List

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Method arguments are contravariant in the subtype, and by the definition of the wildcard, for every type T that extends Vehicle Foo<T> is a subtype of Foo<* extends Vehicle>. The implication of this is that wildcards are great when you only care about the return type, but dont work in situations like this when you want to pass a value of the type to a method.

The problem is that a user might try to call

List<SpaceShip> l = ...
addCars(l);

if your code were to compile, l would then be a list of spaceships containing 3 cars. Clearly no good.

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