The book I'm about 300 pages into writing is extensively referenced, with many engineering links as I've peppered through various threads. It also requests the reader keep an open mind. I'm bringing in things I've learned in other disciplines. I challenge a lot of assumptions and not just in suspension design. I expect about 70% of conventional enthusiasts won't appreciate it, but those who do will really love what they can get from applying the principles. Some, like those who has tested our products against many others, will see it as a validation of what we know to be true. Not because of confirmation bias or Koolaid, but because you can't lie to Mother Nature.

The OEMs generally know how to make a fantastic, fast, smooth sports car or sedan. We're smart if we take note of what they do that works and then apply the Hippocratic oath to our customized suspensions - to do no harm. I'm thinking of the tires and our bodies. Both must be kept happy to have the maximum grip and smoothest ride. Given ideally-tuned damping and all other essential variables held constant, a setup without Flat Ride won't grip as well or ride as well as one that has it. This isn't conjecture, it's science - it's what engineers more experienced than any of us know and why OEMs use it.

Until your (insert vehicle, in our case a Miata) has a better power:weight ratio and utilizes signficantly more aero than a Corvette I see no reason to deviate from a formula that makes excellent sense and keeps the tires in better contact with the road, plus reduces vibrations demonstrated to disturb the driver (thus reducing their performance).

What I'm saying is only new to some people . A lot of engineers & racers in other fields are well aware of these concepts. Putting it all together for our applications seems to be novel, from what I'm not seeing or hearing about other product. An efficient, compact, Flat Compression blow-off feature for a monotube shock appears to be novel.

I think the changes are more likely to come at the level of a new company taking whichever of these principles they want (and others they discover on their own) and applying them to their existing product lines. They will get objectively better results in every area, as we're demonstrating. Someone may actually do a fully quantitative analysis. That might even be me once I have the vehicles to do those tests on.