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Today’s Urban Design Observation: Absurd Bumper Protection

The automotive version of an iPhone case. Because auto designers and manufacturers do not take parallel parking and paint-trading into consideration, motorists wishing to avoid scuffmarks must purchase these absurd, ugly things.

It totally mars the lines of the car. What is the point of designing something beautiful, if it must be obscured? As with phones, I wish they’d design the protection in in the first place. These are objects that exist in the real world, and that should be taken into account.

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