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Let's see the uniforms, please. No! NOT ENOUGH MYLAR!!

What a great opportunity for the Aftermarket market.

Why, exactly?

It's more than a belief... the statistics bear it out. "The lowest 2015 death rate by vehicle type is for very large SUVs: 13 deaths per million registered vehicles. The highest is for mini cars: 64 deaths per million registered vehicles." https://www.edmunds.com/car-safety/are-smaller-cars-as-safe-...

The price point is incredibly low for the capacity and performance. Go price a high-end Ram/F-series/Chevy and be amazed that you can easily spend 65K on something you'd feel comfortable taking a date to dinner in. I was shocked by the first look, but the practicality is there. I'd buy one, if I wasn't in the "post-payoff" period of my SUV. If the incentives are there and fuel costs rise, I think I could convince my spouse.

This is, of course, true. Many fail with the mindset that if only they can build big enough haystacks, the needles will coalesce like shiny seaglass upon the shore, because surely they will hire the algorithmic wizards, and oh yes.. AI(!!) and ML(!!).

Still, this really could have useful applications in scientific applications where the goal is to capture extremely fast events in detail... super-colliders, fast-fusion events, etc...