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care to explain why?

• TheOtherHobbes 7y ago
  The outrageous distance required to make the leap from consumer vacuum cleaners to cars. It's not unlike Parrot or DJI saying they're going to start making private jets. A certain skepticism was inevitable. Brightly coloured plastic is not a sufficient USP for a car. And don't forget Apple failed in this space, with much bigger resources. It's not even the product design, which was non-trivial, but not impossibly unlikely. It's the logistics and operations - raw materials, parts sourcing and supply chain design, manufacturing and assembly, delivery, servicing, maintenance, spares, certification, dealer relationships, charging... And the testing required to get 200k miles out of the product. My guess is the timescale didn't work. The car was probably at least a couple of years from production, and would have been overtaken by smarter and more interesting products from the established players.
• projektfu 7y ago
  I was going to say more, but it was unnecessary. Why should we believe that Dyson was 95% of the way there and abandoned it because they didn't want to risk the rest of the business?