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BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair (www.ifixit.com)
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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.

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[–] Fabrik872@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I dont understand how they can sell it as security screw if you can unscrew it with those thin pliers

[–] nocturne@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You clearly weren't using Knipex pliers.

[–] nocturne@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

Nope, I am one of the poors.