Went down the rabbit hole from your link: > > It is a parody/exaggeration of the Edsel, a similarly disastrous automobile designed by Ford Motor Company. Poin

Went down the rabbit hole from your link: > > It is a parody/exaggeration of the Edsel, a similarly disastrous automobile designed by Ford Motor Company. Points to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel: It has a "Design controversies" section that's very relevant to today: > Complaints also surfaced about the taillights on 1958-model Edsel station wagons. The lenses were boomerang-shaped and placed in a reverse fashion. At a distance, they appeared as arrows pointed in the opposite direction of the turn being made. When the left turn signal flashed, its arrow shape pointed right, and vice versa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel#/media/File%3A1958_Edsel_Villager.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel#/media/File%3A1958_Eds... Why is it relevant? Related thread from 3 days ago about blinkers with the exact same design flaws , but in 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28661282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28661282