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Originally Posted by cbertels
The Big Horse-drawn Carriage Industry said the same thing about the fancy horseless carriage.
All kidding aside, I think you're right. The enthusiast marketplace, both OEM and aftermarket, are titans that don't want to see massive shifts quickly. A glacial pace of change would more benefit the major players involved.
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And an apt analogy. A well developed industry with a universal infrastructure, decades and centuries old, understood by everyone, virtually everyone had one - available to the working man, solid safety record, economical to run and maintain, attractive to the public eye, hundreds of supporting industries.
As opposed to: Expensive beyond belief, extremely limited availability only to the rich, ugly by public standards, offensive to the eye and ear, dangerous, no existing support infrastructure - fuel or roads, expensive to run or repair, almost no supporting industries.
And yet, here we are. Trying, fruitlessly, to find a buggy-whip today. The first
electric car in the US, BTW, was developed in 1890.
