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So they took a simple wheel and added a couple hundred parts, increasing cost, maintnence complexity, failure potential, and weight. Is it worth it?

• strken 8y ago
  That's the point of RnD, though, right? Try a hundred things, extensively test ten of them, end up with one or two that actually work.
  • st26 8y ago
    And, if you're lucky, also end up with ten neat brand new ideas that are spawned by the RnD that lead to entirely new things. All the tech that went into this wheel, might coincidentally open other doors, that lead to still other doors...