They should charge more for it…

@theophile ...Well put; at the end of the day.  Just because you can own a full-tilt Bugatti doesn't mean you've the skill and snap to employ it without becoming another tragedy for the news @ 6. 👍😎

'cuse... 

@richardbrand , for consideration...

"I believe vinyl groove modulations make significant contributions at wavelengths below visible light so lasers well into the ultraviolet spectrum would be needed.  Rather like those used for SACD, Blu-ray and Ultra Blu-ray disks which can be read error-free by transports costing a few hundred bucks ..."

...a 3 laser head that tracks height above surface feeding the position (groove 'follower') 2nd to the reader 3rd.  Arm beam c/f tube w/sorbothane coating, and maglev X/Y drives....B/T counter weight, lose the wires.
Or go direct to optical in some compelling fashion.

Anyway, start a gofundus, mess with some old BR players...rewatch this....

"...accounts' Got to have Soul!"

Give up, give in, get down.... ;) *L*

@pindac - no flying cars yet, but where I live they do have a LOT self-driving Jaguars (Waymo) that are completely autonomous and have nobody in the driver's seat. I trust them more than I do the cars WITH somebody in the driver's seat. 

I sense there is enough discussion had in the past few days for WB to use and achieve another 0.5 Mil funding.

Has a Driverless Vehicle been convicted of a motoring offence or a Faulty Tail Light ?

That will really really P off the Court Houses - What No Cash Cow Motorists to feed the machine anymore, who are we going to send to be Cheap Labour to the Prison Businesses, Ah Cyclists will do.

I don't even equate this to a full fledged supercar. More a over-hyped car obscenely priced. 

It's more a story about a vast amount of Government Grant money spent(ie) someone got rich developing this. Now they need to price it into the stratosphere to justify where the money went. At 320K they'd break even by selling less than 20 of them.

So this is the great value of the 5 million grant. Less than 20 people get a turntable arm and cartridge. More sales if they want to make a profit. Do I envisage $100K turntable owners moving up? Not really. 320K is a different sector. 320K(for now) watch this one spiral in price. I'd be surprised if this thing is a hit. I think they'll sell their 20 because it isn't that big a number to break even. I don't see a 320K product for minimal people as a great use of  millions of grant money.

If they really have developed a new standard, watch the Chinese tweak it enough to get around the patents and sell their version for one tenth the price. It might be good but next to no-one will own one so what was the point?

Secondly, it might be excellent. Standard setting in fact but Fremer will be gifted his. In return, his true testimony will sell at least 50 of them. Good for Fremer. Good for WB. What did the government grant buy the populace at large?

They openly state that this is but the first and there will be more to follow: A 500K model? WOW we'll all be waiting anxiously for that.

For 99.9999999% of the world's population nothing to see here folks.