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Story colleagues told me once: requirements for a car's rear wind shield was that is had to withstand air pressures of 120km/h. But the car could not go in reve
by ragebol 6y ago
Story colleagues told me once: requirements for a car's rear wind shield was that is had to withstand air pressures of 120km/h. But the car could not go in reverse that fast, so the requirement did not make sense and was loosened.
On delivery of the produced cars, many rear wind shields were broken. Turns out they were transported from the factory on a train, faced backwards so they could fit more cars on the train.
(no idea if this really happened, but it's a nice little story)
- plafl 6y agoIt certainly looks fabricated. Even if they were transported in open wagons only the front of the train feels all the power of the wind.
- gruez 6y agoI feel like the point of the story is supposed to be "all requirements have a reason behind them", but to me it's more of a case of "even a broken clock is right twice a day"