Scout Patents
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Thanks for posting this, these are all great innovations. The Terra is complementary of my aging body with the side step with hand and possible tailgate step for easier access to the bed-we don't have the hops that Chris Benjamin does!
This is an interesting way to put it.
The funding for this is coming from a definitively non-American company (VWAG). The freedom to innovate is available to the Scout engineers at least in part because they have the funding to do so and they don’t have a shareholder value middle manager breathing down their necks to make it faster and cheaper. They have a model of engineering that hasn’t been available to engineers in US publicly-traded companies since the Friedman Doctrine, which is a distinctly “American” idea of how companies should operate.
Maybe drops the air suspension into a Carolina Squat to make it easier to reach over and change the baby in the trunk or a reverse squat so you could do it in the frunk?Maybe in "baby changing mode" when parked it drops the tailgate of a Terra and lights up the bed, if needed for a nice changing table. Or, user selectable open and light the Frunk on either Scout vehicle.
Turns on the interior lights so you can see what you are doing.
I read the entire pantent. Pretty much these modes will be able to change lighting, interior sound, suspension, air conditioning, etc. along with the ability to assign it a designated button.Maybe in "baby changing mode" when parked it drops the tailgate of a Terra and lights up the bed, if needed for a nice changing table. Or, user selectable open and light the Frunk on either Scout vehicle.
Scott Keogh at one of the events said that VW funding and management has given Scout Motors the space to be a type "sand box". Which is probably why VW executives and other parts of their company aren't controlling Scout. Is so that they can be the innovators that IH was back in the 60-80s.
Yes. That’s my point. Scout is kind of an independent “skunkwerks” project of VWAG. What they produce will likely be sold back to other VWAG subsidiaries and may very well make more money for Scout than selling vehicles does.
This is incredibly rare in the US with publicly-traded companies. Since at least the 1920s* (but it was really solidified in the 1970s**), it’s been the un-questioned Truth that the only ethical way for companies to exist is to increase short-term shareholder value. That is the “American Way.” The rest of the world have a more balanced view of companies and their social responsibilities, and that balance allows much more innovation than we get here in the US (in general)—because they aren’t burdened with the question of “how will this make as much money as possible as quickly as possible?"
*Henry Ford was sued by a group of minority shareholders, including the Dodge Brothers for trying to do good things for society.
**Milton Friedman’s “maximize shareholder value” doctrine has dominated company (and some legal) policy since the 1970s.
Was Apple ever sued? Steve jobs the type of guy that it was his way or the highway. He didn't care about the customer or the stock holders.
As far as I know? I know of around a half-dozen times in relatively recent memory. Could be more.
Apple was recently sued by shareholders for overstating their AI progress.
Intel and its last CEO were sued by shareholders because of the nosedive their stock took in early 2025 after a series of failed/delayed product launches. The lawsuit claimed the CEO was deliberately misleading shareholders on its product launches and market performance.
It happens quite frequently.
Just stating that the Friedman Doctrine is about maximizing shareholder value is a bit of a misrepresentation of Friedman's argument. His doctrine was more an analysis of the role of the CEO and whose money they are responsible for. His argument was that the CEO is ostensibly responsible for spending the shareholder's money as investment, thus spending it on products and services that the shareholders did not invest in is financially irresponsible at best, fraud at worst.
The rebuttal to that is that CEOs who invest in communities and social causes are buying consumer goodwill which can in turn increase sales, thus revenues, which eventually make their way back to shareholders anyway.
One is a legal argument, the other is a social argument. Neither is necessarily right or wrong, but both claim to prevent political corporatism- neither models seem to have been able to fix that.
Yeah. That’s why I’m happy to support a company like Scout where the employees and product matter.
I was thinking maybe it would have a special scented air freshener that would come out the vents when in baby changing mode lol.I was picturing it rolling the windows down and turning the HVAC blower to high to de-stink the cabin, haha.
