Don Armstrong wrote:
It's like keeping a trailer connected to your car all the time, with the main fuse of the trailers' circuit removed, just because the electricity could decide to want to try to flow through the outlet at the hitch in case you hit the break pedal.If we're going to make car analogies, a more apt one is It's like a car manufacturer making a car which comes with a hitch mount even though you don't ever plan on using a trailer You can build your own car without it, but it's perfectly reasonable for the manufacturer to not offer that model without it.
Well, if we're going to make car analogies...A lot of folks might observe that trailer hitches make parking in tight spaces difficult or impossible, increase the risk of backing into things, make it a lot harder to know where the back of your car is (unless, you also add a back-up camera), and possibly increase insurance costs as a result - making such a model unattractive to the bulk of car buyers who are more interested in city driving than hauling a trailer.
One might go on to note that there are very few models of car (if any) that come standard with a trailer hitch.
And one might go a bit further to suggest that:- a salesman who insisted on only showing vehicles with trailer hitches, would tick off a lot of potential customers, and probably be fired by the dealership - an automaker who only sold vehicles with trailer hitches, would probably be out of business pretty quickly
Come to think of it, probably not a bad analogy at all. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra