Adafruit: From Ultimate Driving Machine to Ultimate Rent-Seeking Machine: The BMW Logo Screw Patent.
If you haven’t already heard, BMW’s R&D teams have been busy “innovating.” Unfortunately, they aren’t focusing on the things that actually matter—like stellar engine performance or the legendary driving dynamics that gearheads love. Instead, the C-suite execs decided that the best use of their engineering budget was to design a proprietary security screw specifically intended to prevent BMW drivers from fixing their own cars.
How exactly is this going to prevent people from fixing their own cars? I think it is pretty neat to have bolts with your brands logo. It’s genuinely trivial to get drive bits. To act like it isn’t is stupid as fuck. Reactionary horseshit.