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Nuts, bolts, and screw heads.
I know we need various sizes for various tasks, but I shouldn't have to dig through 50 different screwdrivers or ratchet heads and still not have one that'll work.
I replace crappy ones when I remove them.
I'll tolerate Phillips, but slotted gets replaced with torx. Phillips get replaced if they get damaged.
Torx are pretty great
Everything should be torx
There are reasons why you can't have Torx in some situations. For example, sanitary machine designs. Preference is a flanged hex head. If flush mount is required, then slotted is best (even though they do suck for every other reason)
Why would slotted be better than, say, Phillips for flat mount? Most of the flat heads on the equipment at work is either a Phillips or hex
For sanitary applications, slotted is better because you can clean out the slot easier than the cutout for a Phillips head.
Torx Plus*
Best of luck with that mate. Do you know how many different cross-shaped drives there are already?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives
And if you really want to get upset about confused standards you should read the section of the Talk page about why JIS B 1012 was removed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_screw_drives
Meanwhile, there’s Robertson, the superior 4 pointed driver over Phillips.
Those are already standardized though…
There are 14 competing standards. We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases.
Congratulations now we have 15 standards.
I think that was the joke yes
Relevant XKCD
I'll just be happy when we phase out imperial and other weird thread types. Metric standardisation is a godsend over what came before.
The heads are a lost cause. They serve too many different purposes, with differing, competing, requirements.
Or the crappy BMW design.
Yes. Everything Robertson.