I work in this space. Took one look at Launch and instantly recognise the type of company they are (aftersales/paper pushing) and that this will probably fail due to lack of actual engineering experience with DfM, control software, etc.
How much effort/legal/heartache is involved in building an after market add-on for commercial vehicles?
Some comforting assumptions
- internal customers. no sales.
- good software talent. can work around anything.
- almost no moving parts - mostly electronics
- can accept cost overrun on the components - each unit is >$10K
- gradual scaling to 1000s units/annum
- daily return to hubs if needed
Not legal advice: If you don’t change steering or brakes then virtually no compliance is required. You are of course liable if your widget causes an accident.
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I work in this space. Took one look at Launch and instantly recognise the type of company they are (aftersales/paper pushing) and that this will probably fail due to lack of actual engineering experience with DfM, control software, etc.
warning: total manufacturing newbie here
But i would like to ask.
How much effort/legal/heartache is involved in building an after market add-on for commercial vehicles?
Some comforting assumptions - internal customers. no sales. - good software talent. can work around anything. - almost no moving parts - mostly electronics - can accept cost overrun on the components - each unit is >$10K - gradual scaling to 1000s units/annum - daily return to hubs if needed
Not legal advice: If you don’t change steering or brakes then virtually no compliance is required. You are of course liable if your widget causes an accident.