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freebeard · 10-05-2012, 11:22 PM

I stopped by Local Motors and saw that there was a design competition to design the door handle for the VLC:

https://www.localmotors.com/edison2-...re-in/2012/09/

They offered $6K in prize money to the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place winners, with 10 entries. For the door handle. Not bad odds.

Does anyone know how much it would have cost to design the door handle themselves? Does this represent a savings? Did it result in a design nobody would have thought of otherwise?

10-05-2012, 11:22 PM	#19 (permalink)
freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 27,701 Thanks: 7,777 Thanked 8,586 Times in 7,070 Posts	I stopped by Local Motors and saw that there was a design competition to design the door handle for the VLC: https://www.localmotors.com/edison2-...re-in/2012/09/ They offered $6K in prize money to the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place winners, with 10 entries. For the door handle. Not bad odds. Does anyone know how much it would have cost to design the door handle themselves? Does this represent a savings? Did it result in a design nobody would have thought of otherwise? Last edited by freebeard; 10-05-2012 at 11:26 PM.. Reason: added number of entrants