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  • Batmorous@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    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

        • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          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.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      9 days ago

      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. :)