But average traffic speeds in many cities are already below 40kph and the EN-V's range is well within the typical daily mileage of most urban drivers, says Chris Borroni-Bird, GM's director of advanced vehicle concepts.According to Dr Borroni-Bird, modern cars are over-engineered because they are designed for use between cities, not just within cities.
"Creating a radical mobile design that doesn't feel flimsy and cheap or over-engineered is one of the biggest blockers to design disruption" according to Lee.
The Terminator, for example, is the over-engineered result of a chain of increasingly bad design decisions that started with the premise of sending a machine back to a specific moment in time, but not getting the place quite right, and eventually ending up with a walking metal skeleton wrapped in the flesh of a body-builder with an Austrian accent.
The Terminator, for example, is the over-engineered result of a chain of increasingly bad design decisions that started with the premise of sending a machine back to a specific moment in time, but not getting the place quite right, and eventually ending up with a walking metal skeleton wrapped in the flesh of a bodybuilder with an Austrian accent.
But many machines designed in Europe or North America are over-engineered and overpriced in the eyes of customers in emerging markets, who do not pay extra for features they do not need.
It turns out the square, brass inflow ducts are actually handles designed to help the waiters move the over-engineered chairs around.
It's over-engineered, and in turn becomes a constraint preventing innovation on the products (the games).
They were originally designed for a 90-day journey, but were deliberately over-engineered.
Still, one conclusion from the toy research may be that toys meant to promote engineering shouldn't — or at least don't need to — be over-engineered.
Monumental structures, they were deliberately over-engineered.
Libra was over-engineered and had too few clients.
