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"You should check out my new car company, ThreeWheel. We're completely revolutionizing the business of getting around. The key innovation is that our cars have
by sbierwagen 5y ago
"You should check out my new car company, ThreeWheel. We're completely revolutionizing the business of getting around. The key innovation is that our cars have three wheels. This reduces tire cost, improves aerodynamics, and reduces rolling friction. Our three wheeled cars are the future of all wheeled transport!"
"Okay."
"But our prototype has four wheels, as a temporary prototype to test out the technology."
"That doesn't seem like it tests the technology very well."
"I don't see why you're quibbling about the details. We've sold thousands of ThreeWheels to people who are very enthusiastic about living in a three wheeled future!"
"You've sold four wheeled cars to people who want three wheeled cars?"
"They then resell them for tens of thousands of dollars more than they paid! They're ecstatically happy! Nobody is bigger fans of the three wheel car future than our customers."
"Even though these cars, the cars they purchased, have four wheels."
"Well, they could remove one wheel later, if they wanted."
"Would that work?"
"Oh no, absolutely not. You couldn't drive it at all, then. It would be much worse than a regular car. A lot of work remains to be done to gradually transition current ThreeWheels to a three wheeled form. We plan to send robots to each customer's garage to cut sections from the frame and re-weld them together. Then we need to swap out the steering rack, re-route the driveshaft, change suspension components, brakes..."
"That sounds hard."
"Yes, we think it will take hundreds of changes over years to move current generation ThreeWheels to a three wheeled mode."
"Instead of just building three wheeled cars today?"
"Wow John Cena bought a ThreeWheel and posted it on his instragram! My collection of ThreeWheels is going to explode in value! I love my job!"
- bertil 5y agoI thought you were going after Aptera and Arcimoto for a second and I was wondering what they had done to deserve to be associated with that debate…
- distrill 5y agoI'm sure this is funny but a much better example would be the Prius and electric vehicles.
- spullara 5y ago^ for sure.
- kolanos 5y agoSomeone should have told Toyota.
- scarier 5y agoWas the Prius ever intended to be an evolutionary step toward widespread EV adoption?
- bckr 5y agoNot GP but I have to say I love getting 50mpg in the city and having the same range as any gas powered car. So I don't quite see how Prius is a better example than the awesome analogy made above.
- nappy 5y agoThe Prius had user benefits right away.
- manmal 5y agoFun fact, Toyota is not a big fan of the transition to fully electric: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22594235/toyota-lobbying-dc-ev-congress-biden-donation https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22594235/toyota-lobbying-...
- ac29 5y agoToyota is definitely behind, but they just held an event last month showing off 16 new BEVs: https://thedriven.io/2021/12/15/toyota-joins-electric-race-with-16-new-bevs-and-massive-boost-to-sales-target/ https://thedriven.io/2021/12/15/toyota-joins-electric-race-w...
- menzoic 5y agoThis example is not good. Hardware has a much different release cycle than software. Once you sell a car, you can't simply release a hardware update. 99.999% of internet software is built iteratively. Even programming languages and operating systems have versions. This argument about needing everything to be decentralized from the beginning is exposing bias because it's not a logical conclusion unless you're bent on antagonizing web3. Even most DAOs start out centralized and slowly become decentralized. This is expected. You don't want to go full decentralized until everything is stable.
- yunohn 5y ago> Even most DAOs start out centralized and slowly become decentralized This is also how democratic governance works. A core group of “trusted” leaders makes decisions that are ratified by elected representatives. It is then disseminated through the various layers of governance and implemented in a distributed fashion.
- rambambram 5y agoThis is golden. Thanks!