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  Ken K

  6 years ago

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  The painted plastic bumpers of today are pretty but also pretty easily damaged. I can see the point of adding stupid doodads to protect the paint and plastic, especially in the city. That one happens to be mindbogglingly ugly, but I can see the point. 

  
  I once owned a 1930 Model A Ford. The standard bumpers were a pair of strong horizontal strips of spring steel. If you bumped into something, the bumpers threw you right back, like a tennis ball bouncing off a wall. It was kind of fun to test the idea at very low speed. They very definitely did not need a big rubber diaper to protect them.

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  Robert Wilkey

  6 years ago

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  My iPhone C has been used and abused every day since I got it, a few months after the product launched.  I have dropped it out of a car door.  It has slid off of a shelf 6ft above a solid concrete floor and landed on the corner.  I have left it in my pocket with my keys and sat down on it numerous times.  I even accidentally launched it into ice covered rocks once while snowboarding.
  
  The thing sure looks beat up, but since the scratches and gouges just expose more of the same-colored plastic, I'm never embarrassed to take it out of my pocket.  And while I had to replace the screens on my metal phones multiple times, this one has survived all of that abuse without so much as some barely-visible scratches.
  
  It deeply saddens me that this level of real-world abuse consideration is just not taken into account on the design of so many things.  My friend's Audi got tapped in a parking lot, at a speed of probably 1/8th of a mile per hour - $800 repair, because the grille unit is one gigantic, complex, multi-finish, thin plastic part that was entirely aesthetics and zero practicality.

  
  

  But to each their own, I guess.  Some people wanna buy the expensive Italian supercar and put a diaper on it.

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    Brad Johnson

    Robert Wilkey

    6 years ago

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    You're lucky! 

    
    

    My iPhone C slid out of my pocket at a height of about 18", and landed on the plastic side once about 3 weeks after I got it. The screen wasn't cracked, and there was only the slightest little nick in the plastic... but the phone was destroyed. half the screen was missing or just jumbled colors. The touch feature was completely disabled, so it was also impossible to unlock the phone.

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  Tomas Hernandez

  6 years ago

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  What about a temporary one, reminds me of this feature side mirrors have to fold in when you park; so in this case this things will fold out. Market it to the Valley parking or in areas parking is so tight people park braille.  
  
  Totally agree people who put this things on their car are totally owned by the object. 

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  phil k

  6 years ago

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  Only in NYC
  

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  Alex Netz

  6 years ago

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  Its like the plastic covers in my grandma's chairs

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  Jacob Breinholt

  6 years ago

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  Using these things when a car is parked on the street is understandable (esp when people tend to park by braille if they don't have a nice car). But when I see a nice car driving around with these things hanging off of them, I think it is a bit ridic. Having some scratches on the bumper looks better than driving around with these ugly things flapping around. The most egregious example I have seen, to date, is an Aston Martin Vanquish driving around Greenpoint with one of those huge rubber boat dock bumpers hanging out of the trunk. C'mon, man!
  

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  Juan Cano

  6 years ago

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  I've only seen those in NYC, not that I've travelled to all cities in the USA. They look horrible.

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  Ed Blankenship

  6 years ago

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  The protection IS designed into the car. It's a bumper. It's made to come into contact (be bumped) and to protect the frame of the car, NOT the looks. That's why they are a relatively easy/common part to replace. Unfortunately, dings and paint-scraping are a way of life, especially in the city. I, too, hate these ugly bumper-savers but the same thing happened when we all had chrome bumpers. They got dented, the chrome chipped. It was also an expensive and dumb repair but people got along fine enough back then.

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