If the scientific method is just one epistemic method out of

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If the scientific method is just one epistemic method out of infinitely many, and science is merely a subset of philosophy, then why do non-scientist philosophers completely evacuate any field that scientists are directly involved with? Surely they have a lot to contribute? Philosophy is more than just science.

So for example, philosophers love talking about the brain and consciousness but they are suspiciously quiet about how cars work. Why is this? Why isn't the Harvard faculty trying to work it out, when cars are such an important part of our society? The engineering / scientific school has merely done it through the scientific method yet there are still so many more methods to be used!

It seems the main function of philosophers is to spin ever more elaborate and unfalsifiable chains of reasoning about subject areas that haven't yet been colonised by scientists or mathematicians and desecrated with maths at a higher than secondary school level. But that's just my ignorant cynicism, no doubt.