Ah, I must have missed that. Thanks for that extra bit of context.

I think it's a bit the other way around. The "side hustles" ARE his main gig and how he raised the money to buy the warehouse. The car gig is the dream gig he wants and is working toward and is hoping social media can get him there.

He might be a fraud. Don't know. It's a good initiative anyway. I've been waiting for FOSS DIY cars to become popular for 15+ years. Don't know why it never really takes off. Well, probably because of the big players lobbying/preventing, regulations and the lack of capital.

Somehow it still won't allow byd electric cars despite them being able to go a 1000 miles on a single charge and it taking less time to recharge than it does now by then

Would more likely be a forceful regulation of cars.

More likely we would be trying to push out imported cars by pushing some kind of "american saftey" regulation. Maybe claiming that the imported cars have Chinese spyware in them (but the spyware in our cars is cool), or by saying that they are trying to flood the market with cheap unsafe garbage cars so we need to tarrif them even more to save our domestic car market.

All while we forcefully regulated in more computers that make the roads even more unsafe. No one can turn their god damn neck anymore because of those stupid blind spot detectors and lane assist just means you can text while driving now. Oh and every car needs to collect more data than your phone can do legally. Bullshit computers won't let you change the MOTOR for your windshield because the part is Vin locked so you have to spend 500 dollars on just the motor before the technician who is the only person allowed to work on your car, charges you 2.5 grand in labor. All that for a fix that uses to cost 20 dollars at a pick and pull.

Another route we can go is because cars have so many cameras the cars now have to have some American made operating system forced into them for "national security" which Honda, KIA, etc will all have to scramble to get working and it will be a disastrous mess that bricks cars, and causes a lot of issues.

In no way shape or form are cars going to become cool again and become deregulated. If anything gets deregulated its the consumer protections for data collection. Cars are on track to be this thing you are not allowed to own, but like a autonomous taxi that you indefinitely rent, and have no control or ownership over. It will be a narc and report and record everything you do. Its like public transport, but you have to pay the price for the whole car, and pay a monthly subscription for it on top of paying for the matience (that only the OEM can do at a $250 a hr labor charge).

I can only wish cars could become more degregulated. Im still bittered we bailed out the automotive industry all for them to keep fucking us in the ass with shittier bigger trucks that break down more often and we have to pay off for two to three presidential terms. Fucking China has the equivalent of a Tesla for 16k, and in the united States I can buy a Ford bronco for 36 months at 450 dollars a month.

This is not true at all. It highly varies by state and if there is a process for kit cars in that state it'll still have requirements that have to be verified. You can sometimes get show or prototype plates depending on state but they come with their own set of restrictions and rules.