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Dominic Preston
Branding 101.

Look, if you’re going to build a product that sits below a car’s backup camera and squirts it clean every now and then, there’s really only one name you can give it, and it isn’t Lens Lizard.

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disappointed that they decided against calling it the backup-bidet

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