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Originally Posted by kach22i
I am always amazed by humans, one person knows one thing, another knows another and somehow progress is achieved. Like ants building a massive ant hill.
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It's a nice idea but I basically never see it occurring on web discussion groups relating to car modification. What I
do see is that many people
like to see themselves as part of that process, I think because it makes them feel good about themselves. ("I am not just contributing mindless garbage but I am actually helping Fred!")
The best example I ever saw was on the Honda Insight discussion group. One guy there developed, from scratch, really excellent electronic products for the car. He was light-years ahead of everyone else (including me of course), doing 99 per cent of the idea creation, and then 99 per cent of the test and development of those ideas. Fine!
But what gobsmacked me is that so many others on that group somehow thought they'd made major contributions to the development of those products! I even wrote to the bloke once and asked if he didn't get cross when other people were taking implicit credit for what he was producing, when they'd done basically nothing! He replied that it didn't worry him - but then again, he was selling the products to that group and so wanted a smooth ride.
In this group, when people link to references and do valid on-road tests, it's a completely different ballgame to those who just speculate.