Why do the car top carrier designers design them to be backwards?
Spock Boxes are called spockboxes because they look like the box Admiral Spock was placed in before they shot him into space while Scotty played the bagpipes in his honor in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Well, most people, actually more like 99.95%, attach their car roof top carriers backwards! Even the car top carrier companies that make these car top carriers promote this inefficient mounting method! So don’t feel too bad about it. But it’s aerodynamically backwards!!! My argument: The nose of an airplane is round, all trailing edges are tapered. The reason for this is – airplanes are designed to be aerodynamic. It saves fuel mostly, but there are other reasons, like rounded leading edges and tapered trailing edges cut wind resistance and noise. If everyone who owned a car top roof carrier would go with the flow, and mount theirs with the blunt end forward instead of the sharp end think how much petroleum this might save over the course of each year! I know this way of mounting it
