Most underrated inventions and technological acheivements

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The previous inventions thread was a little negative so I thought i'd start this one. What acheivements do you believe didn't recieve enough acknowledgement?

The soda stream gets my vote. Its a household appliance that carbonates still drinks! Genius!

Or who could forget the Sinclair C5 or Aerocar?

the concept for the sinclair c5 is definately underrated as is the danish alternative

That looks fantastic, i want one of those.

Are they actually road legal?

they are in denmark and the new ones use modern lithium batteries and have quite the range, also charges to 80% in half am hour from a quick charge station(costs extra)

the cost of the highest capacity battery, quick charger and delivery shipped to an address in denmark is around 17k usd. (brand new that is)

##edit## i am pretty sure they are road legal in england since there are a bunch of clubs there when i search, as for ireland i really dont know.

Here in Seattle, if you drive around with in any vehicle less than a car, you're fodder for the reckless drivers. I swear, these people have no patience for bicycles, mopeds, scooters and motorcycles. Someone sitting in a three-wheeled vehicle would be a sitting duck.

I am not about to drive around in some dinky little thing that can be easily run over or crushed by a real car! Remember, if you are in it when it's run over or crushed, you too, are run over or crushed! I drive an old Jeep Cherokee with 4 wheel drive, so I would be safer in a crash, and can get around in bad weather. Also, some of the roads around here are gravel/dirt roads, so the 4W drive comes in handy sometimes. There is also plenty of wildlife around here to watch out for, especially at night. I've had some close calls with nature, and my brother had an encounter with a deer a year or two ago, while driving my parents Jeep Grand Cherokee. It was legally totalled, but drivable and fixable. They basically had to "buy" it back from the insurance company after it was officially totalled, and they had it fixed. My brother still drives it.

If you want to be safer while driving, you need to drive a safer vehicle, and those small dinky ones just don't fit the bill.

then again teh point was never to use such a vehicle as anything but urban commuting under certain distances,

the safety concern caused by others vary wildly from country to country adn sometimes city to city, but one pro for smaller vehicles are a cheaper infrastructure, both to create and maintain, it also saves space where space is at a premium.

Most underrated invention? --Probably these: