Use of 'super' keyword when accessing non-overridden superclass methods

Question

I\'m trying to get the hang of inheritance in Java and have learnt that when overriding methods (and hiding fields) in sub classes, they can still be accessed from the super

Answer 1

Technically, the one that's invoked in this case is the inherited version, for which the implementation is actually provided by the parent class.

There can be scenarios where you must use the super keyword. e.g. if Car had overridden that method, to provide a different implementation of itself, but you needed to invoke the implementation provided by the parent class then you would have use the super keyword. In that case, you could not afford to omit the super keyword because if you did then you would be invoking the implementation provided by the child class itself.