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WCDT 7-11 January 2019 (3911-3915)
Zebediah:
This seems to be going out of style. Every car I have bought in the last 20 years has not had the dealer’s name bolted on. Instead they have had the dealer name on an easily removable license plate frame.
Tova:
Yes, here it's either a license plate frame or a sticker. It was a sticker (on the rear window) on my last car. I remember thinking that was a hassle. Little did I know.
Shremedy:
Unpopular opinion regarding Crushbot: He deserves every bit of angst he gets. Robots, while frequently given bodies appropriate for whatever jobs they do, have much greater opportunities to modify, tweak, or outright change their bodies than humans do. He has the ability -- and the personal responsibility -- to be less "musclebound" and "clumsy", for the safety of others around him! Even if he has to go into debt to make it so! His manufacturer needs a severe talking-to by Scary Expensive Lawyers about letting such an inherently dangerous product out into the wild! While comical in this context (and admittedly owing a great deal to Cartoon Physicstm), Crushbot's utter clumsiness is frightening in real world context. Had it been a human in the line of Crushbot's collapse, the result would have been tragic. Hell, it still could have been tragic, for Roko! Data recorders in airplanes sometimes fail, despite their robust design, in the face of real-world accident conditions.
Morituri:
Tova? I'm sorry to ask, but what nation are you in again? (Australia? Do I remember that right?)
I actually remember a random scrap of a long time ago, when my brother was getting his first pickup truck. When for the first time ever I saw cars on the showroom floor *WITHOUT* the ugly additional dealership-badge chrome.
(They weren't actually bolted here in the US; we got 'mounted' instead where the chrome badges had pegs molded into the back and they punched a hole for the pegs to go in. So, no threads and no nut on the other side. They were friction-fit and could be pulled off by hand, but then you had a car with ugly holes punched in the fender).
Anyway, it turned out that a couple years previous, somebody had sued a car dealership to either get paid for the "advertising" he was doing for them or get a replacement car without ugly holes in the fender. And he won. And after that (literally decades now) I have never observed another US car dealership putting those ugly chrome plates on their cars. These days they "badge" the license plate frames instead, and of course you can exchange those at whim.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 15 Jan 2019, 18:32 ---Tova? I'm sorry to ask, but what nation are you in again? (Australia? Do I remember that right?)
I actually remember a random scrap of a long time ago, when my brother was getting his first pickup truck. When for the first time ever I saw cars on the showroom floor *WITHOUT* the ugly additional dealership-badge chrome.
(They weren't actually bolted here in the US; we got 'mounted' instead where the chrome badges had pegs molded into the back and they punched a hole for the pegs to go in. So, no threads and no nut on the other side. They were friction-fit and could be pulled off by hand, but then you had a car with ugly holes punched in the fender).
Anyway, it turned out that a couple years previous, somebody had sued a car dealership to either get paid for the "advertising" he was doing for them or get a replacement car without ugly holes in the fender. And he won. And after that (literally decades now) I have never observed another US car dealership putting those ugly chrome plates on their cars. These days they "badge" the license plate frames instead, and of course you can exchange those at whim.
--- End quote ---
FWIW, there's a local dealership up my way -- I'm in the PNW -- which still vandalizes the cars that way. I simply won't deal with them, so I can't say whether the badge is on the car before it's sold or not.
(Interpretation: PNW == "Pacific NorthWest", Washington State, Oregon, and other nearby scraps of the US. Dominated by Geeks and Nature Freaks.)
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