What if, hypothetically, there was an open source (non-autonomous, botnet free) Tesla clone? E.g., the text from pic related being in its bottom photo? How neat would it be?
I get headaches from gasoline powered cars' fumes sometimes. But I'd have that over botnet aids.
Bonus points if you focus less on the realistic feasibility of it and more on the general pros/cons less related to that.
Electric cars are useless and for faggots. Battery technology is stagnating and nowhere near the energy density of combustible fuels. Furthermore, any sort of electrical fault is generally impossible to fix.
Right now I'm a poorfag, but if I ever got a car it would be some japanese car made before 1980 (the time when they started introducing ECU bullshit). Such engines are easy for the average person to understand and fix. They are easy to modify and tinker with.
The concept of open source doesn't apply to purely mechanical machines, because everything is and always has been open source already.
Coming from an environmental point of view, I don't think that electric cars are a good thing long term. The very concept of individually owned large, complicated, heavy self-propelled vehicles is unsustainable and a Bad Thing (tm) no matter if the vehicle is electrically powered or ICE, FOSS or proprietary.
That said, if these was a FOSS car that was halfway decent, it would just be cloned by a larger manufacturer, making the original go out of business. This is one of the reasons that Tesla and other manufacturers guard their designs behind so many patents, and try their best to make the internal systems of their cars difficult to reverse engineer.
Additionally the market seems to be focused on bells and whistles ("""autopilot""", turning the A/C on remotely etc) which means that EVs seem to be synonymous with botnet, connected infotainment systems, and other retarded features. It isn't hard to take an existing design, and retrofit an electric motor and batteries *at all* - people have been doing this privately for years. I wish the industry focused on making a good, simple car - a metal box with a motor that drives well and gets you and your shit from A to B, rather than all of the unnecessary shit... but that's what the market wants I guess.
Pic related - it's the ultimate form of transport :^)
>>3 >The very concept of individually owned large, complicated, heavy self-propelled vehicles is unsustainable and a Bad Thing (tm) no matter if the vehicle is electrically powered or ICE, FOSS or proprietary.
No. It's only unsustainable if the world has a high population. Once all subhuman countries like India, China, Africa, South America, the Middle East etc. are nuked off the planet, everyone can own a car with no problem.
>>3 >This is one of the reasons that Tesla and other manufacturers guard their designs behind so many patents
Tesla doesn't guard their designs behind patents. All their patents are open source, so anyone can use them.
>>5 >open source
Link?
Anyway patents cannot be "open source". I think it's correctly to say "public domain".
Also don't confuse copyright and patent right.
What if, hypothetically, there was an open source (non-autonomous, botnet free) Tesla clone? E.g., the text from pic related being in its bottom photo? How neat would it be?
I get headaches from gasoline powered cars' fumes sometimes. But I'd have that over botnet aids.
Bonus points if you focus less on the realistic feasibility of it and more on the general pros/cons less related to that.