All powered up: now why didn’t they do that in the first place

It doesn’t happen often, I grant you, but just occasionally an idea will pop into my head a little while before someone with more money, courage, talent and vision than me actually makes it happen.

The rain-sensing windscreen wiper and the self-dimming interior mirror are good examples. I wrote about them, and they happened. Just remember that you read about auto-dip headlights here first.

My one big idea that the motor industry has failed to take up relates to the type of engine to use in large heavy off-roaders. Traditionally there have been two approaches to this, both wholly unsatisfactory.

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