Re:Why Do Cars Have Fuel Doors on Different Sides?
by gojomo on Friday September 04, 2009 @04:23AM
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I suspect there's more to this story than this 'just so from a biz/econ/evolutionary' analysis.
For example, somewhere, sometime, there must have been a regulator or dominant local supplier that achieved de-facto side-standardization. Did the gas-station-clumping emerge, or a later-entrant benefit from opposite-placement?
Is there a car census anywhere to tell us if regions have different distributions, or if it approaches 50/50 everywhere? (That writer who tallied driver cellphone use could tackle this next.)
Did gas cap placement migrate to the sides -- and higher off the ground -- because the old center-rear gas caps were too low, too dangerous in crashes?
For example, somewhere, sometime, there must have been a regulator or dominant local supplier that achieved de-facto side-standardization. Did the gas-station-clumping emerge, or a later-entrant benefit from opposite-placement?
Is there a car census anywhere to tell us if regions have different distributions, or if it approaches 50/50 everywhere? (That writer who tallied driver cellphone use could tackle this next.)
Did gas cap placement migrate to the sides -- and higher off the ground -- because the old center-rear gas caps were too low, too dangerous in crashes?