This sounds very much like the slow adoption of the HANS Device in NASCAR. The guy who developed said he sold maybe 200 in the first ten years. That all change

This sounds very much like the slow adoption of the HANS Device in NASCAR. The guy who developed said he sold maybe 200 in the first ten years. That all changed when Dale Earnhardt died of a basilar skull fracture, and then the drivers lined up to get them. It's now standard equipment on all NASCAR vehicles. http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2012/09/11/ups-hans-device.html http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2012/09/11/u...