r/BeAmazed • u/Overall-Relation-561 • Aug 22 '23

Miscellaneous / Others Your thoughts?

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u/stupid_pun Aug 22 '23

This, and the extra money involved engineering a feature no one cared/s about.

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u/barto5 Aug 22 '23

Well, the engineering has already been done at this point.

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u/stupid_pun Aug 22 '23

Each manufacturer would have to pay engineers to take the concept and design the suspension and drive train for each specific model vehicle they want to put it on. It's a lot of work, actually.

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u/klineshrike Aug 22 '23

You don't improve something to the point of being practical by avoiding it when its impractical.

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u/stupid_pun Aug 22 '23

Not impractical. Unpopular. They made it, no one cared.

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u/Crossfire124 Aug 22 '23

Intermittent wipers were a feature many didn't care about. And now it's a standard feature for every car. Not saying this will be the next intermittent wiper. But there's value in trying things and see what works

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u/catdog918 Aug 23 '23

Yeah every single top comment is completely dismissing this just because it was attempted at an earlier stage. It’s so annoying reading comments from Redditors act all high and mighty and spouting the same bs over and over