Posted on 03/12/2022 8:00:14 PM PST by BenLurkin
Certainly. A ‘well-designed’ parking pawl could also be designed to seem to be “frictionless”. My point is that NHTSA is generally unwilling to even discuss things that reduce automaker’s cost, even if performance can also be improved in the process.
A friction-less pawl wouldn’t do its job. Besides, redundancy of critical elements is good design.
Kind of reminds me of the old conversations between NASA and the astronauts, who coined the phrase “Spam in a can.” If I don’t have controls at least give me an ejection seat.
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