cross-posted from : https://lemmus.org/post/20199206
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.
I dont understand how they can sell it as security screw if you can unscrew it with those thin pliers
As someone who has broken a pair of pliers trying to use them to unscrew something, that may not work as well as you think it might.
You clearly weren’t using Knipex pliers.
Nope, I am one of the poors.