I’ve always been fascinated by things that we, as a generation of designers, figure out how to improve upon, not because of some advance in technology that wasn’t available to a previous generation, but because of approaching the problem with an eye towards design.
I’d been thinking of collecting these examples for a long time (in a way they’re a different take on my Design in the Wild series) and recently got the inspiration when I was pumping gas into our car. I’m going to start posting those in a new feature called Evolution by Design.
While doing so, I noticed the attached gas tank cap and remembered my mother’s old Honda Civic and how we occasionally would start to drive away from the gas station when we’d hear the cap roll down and fall off the roof of the car. Tethering the cap to the car is a simple solution to the problem.
As an aside, check out the unintended use of the “older” tech by my friend Brian:
Love it.
