Fiberglass Corvette automobiles have 7 highly visible seams. The boat building industry spends a lot of time and money trying to cover-up similar seams. You can also read about his firm on the MPYD web site. Really interesting to hear comments from some designers, even if they did spend a lot of time crying about the lack of acceptance of their designs. Peters has, is the racing industry.
Racers are much quicker to adapt new technologies and designs than traditional builders.
It was interesting to hear the discussion about how hard it is to crack into the builders with a new design. I have observed the same thing in the marine drives industry which has very few U.S. built competitors, while their are several hundred if over a thousand U.S. boat builders. Historically, the boat building industry had very low barriers to entry. Just find a tin building and some workers with at a zerox copy of a green card. Now, with much greater focus on environmental and health issues, plus increased complexities in the electronic and engine control systems, the barrier to entry has been raised.