Welp this is probably to read with a grain of salt, Buckminster had a great inspirational idea with the geodesic dome, a narcissistic obsession for detail with

Welp this is probably to read with a grain of salt, Buckminster had a great inspirational idea with the geodesic dome, a narcissistic obsession for detail with the Dymaxion Chronofile but also fathered deadly and badly executed concepts like the Dymaxion car... While he remain an inspirational figure he was also eager to attribute shortcomings of his inventions to pretty much any scapegoat passing by. It's totally plausible that dodge corporation did some market study and ultimately decided that this was definitively not ready for production. In such scenario Buckminster would probably have quickly invented a more dramatic reason for failure of yet another of his concepts.