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Time for opensourcevehicles and opensourcetransit to become a thing. I’m one of many people interested in doing that. Anyone have spitball ideas on how to go about doing that?
Trying to think up some simpler first projects, how to get it funded, and how to get a community for that up and running
Also, some people were interested in making opensourcebusiness community. If anyone is still interested then please do it there was 7 people I remember that were interested at the time for that
We can also get opensourceanimation, opensourceuiux, and way more up and running. To slowly transform our world and get open source to grow even more
Edit: Would be cool for people to get community projects made for bikes, electric bikes, bike-cars, cars, VTOL’s, and way more overtime. Trams, trolleys, trains, high speed rail, airplanes, submarines, airships, etc
Edit 2: Main focus being people-focused transit. Didn’t realize I was in fuckcars. If we are going to have any transit might as well be open source especially EV’s
I love the spirit! I think about open sourcing vehicles all the time, but unfortunately I think the biggest hurdle might be in what constitutes a street-legal vehicle.
Even though there’s lots of dangerous problems with closed source cars, I’m pretty sure there’s some litany of safety / engineering standards that manufacturers have to meet, as well as passing “smog tests” in many places. (EVs still on the table tho…?)
So, an open source vehicle would be more transparent, which would be a huge win! But also if it was a community initiative like say, RepRap, I imagine there’d be a lot of red tape with user-designed or hypothetically 3D printed cars or somesuch, especially when it comes to safety standards.
The biggest worries I’d have would be how much interest such projects would get from safety engineers and other pros who know how to make the thing not kill the user.
Am I way off? I’d love to hear I’m wrong and there’s plenty of hope for this to be a thing. I really hate modern car manufacturers. They all suck. Their proprietary lock-in and user-hostile attitude sucks. We need better. :)
I’m not sure how much about a regular bike needs to be any more open source than it already is. The patent has long since expired. It’s not like there’s any major bike manufacturer trying to lock in owners.
I’d obviously say the best open source vehicles are bikes and scooters, but I understand that currently isn’t an option for everyone and that even in the ideal scenario there’s going to need to be a small number of cars, trucks and vans. IDK how practical something like this will really be, but it’s at least pretty neat.
Awesome thanks for the heads up! Feel like it will be possible just for bigger projects it will definitely need a community open source everything approach
Something to consider, how does that law apply in the US making it illegal to break any digital lock, passed in the late 90s to protect CD companies? It’s our property, we should be able to program it how we want, just curious if a company could lean on (pay off) the feds to persecute someone wiping their programming and putting in their own?
Time for opensourcevehicles and opensourcetransit to become a thing. I’m one of many people interested in doing that. Anyone have spitball ideas on how to go about doing that?
Trying to think up some simpler first projects, how to get it funded, and how to get a community for that up and running
Also, some people were interested in making opensourcebusiness community. If anyone is still interested then please do it there was 7 people I remember that were interested at the time for that
We can also get opensourceanimation, opensourceuiux, and way more up and running. To slowly transform our world and get open source to grow even more
Edit: Would be cool for people to get community projects made for bikes, electric bikes, bike-cars, cars, VTOL’s, and way more overtime. Trams, trolleys, trains, high speed rail, airplanes, submarines, airships, etc
Edit 2: Main focus being people-focused transit. Didn’t realize I was in fuckcars. If we are going to have any transit might as well be open source especially EV’s
I love the spirit! I think about open sourcing vehicles all the time, but unfortunately I think the biggest hurdle might be in what constitutes a street-legal vehicle.
Even though there’s lots of dangerous problems with closed source cars, I’m pretty sure there’s some litany of safety / engineering standards that manufacturers have to meet, as well as passing “smog tests” in many places. (EVs still on the table tho…?)
So, an open source vehicle would be more transparent, which would be a huge win! But also if it was a community initiative like say, RepRap, I imagine there’d be a lot of red tape with user-designed or hypothetically 3D printed cars or somesuch, especially when it comes to safety standards.
The biggest worries I’d have would be how much interest such projects would get from safety engineers and other pros who know how to make the thing not kill the user.
Am I way off? I’d love to hear I’m wrong and there’s plenty of hope for this to be a thing. I really hate modern car manufacturers. They all suck. Their proprietary lock-in and user-hostile attitude sucks. We need better. :)
I would assume an open source e-bike would probably be the place to start.
Or just a regular degular bike.
I’m not sure how much about a regular bike needs to be any more open source than it already is. The patent has long since expired. It’s not like there’s any major bike manufacturer trying to lock in owners.
Someone elsewhere in the thread linked https://www.openmotors.co/product/tabbyevo/, which I had never heard of before and which is actually pretty fascinating.
I’d obviously say the best open source vehicles are bikes and scooters, but I understand that currently isn’t an option for everyone and that even in the ideal scenario there’s going to need to be a small number of cars, trucks and vans. IDK how practical something like this will really be, but it’s at least pretty neat.
Hey that’s pretty cool!
If it were powerful enough to just slap a Honda Element chassis on there, it’d be so perfect. A man can dream. XD
Awesome thanks for the heads up! Feel like it will be possible just for bigger projects it will definitely need a community open source everything approach
Something to consider, how does that law apply in the US making it illegal to break any digital lock, passed in the late 90s to protect CD companies? It’s our property, we should be able to program it how we want, just curious if a company could lean on (pay off) the feds to persecute someone wiping their programming and putting in their own?
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