Adafruit: From Ultimate Driving Machine to Ultimate Rent-Seeking Machine: The BMW Logo Screw Patent.
If you haven’t already heard, BMW’s R&D teams have been busy “innovating.” Unfortunately, they aren’t focusing on the things that actually matter—like stellar engine performance or the legendary driving dynamics that gearheads love. Instead, the C-suite execs decided that the best use of their engineering budget was to design a proprietary security screw specifically intended to prevent BMW drivers from fixing their own cars.
Have you done any work on your own vehicle? Because buying a tool just to do one job happens all the time.
I’m a professional, I have thousands of tools I use on a regular basis, and I use them to make money
Whoh thousands and not hundreds?
I mean depends on how you count them, but probably something like that.
Good point, right!
Huh?
Well, I just started considering multi-tools and attachment heads and all that :)
Oh yeah, what qualifies as a single tool