I would definitely pay a premium for an open source car.

"Hey so the auto assist locked the wheel and the brakes, swerved into another lane, shifted to reverse and blew the transmission, then..."

Hahahaha what a funny story consumer, anyways how's your sex life?

Additional Comment:

It seems like the trend of open source is expanding not just more broadly in regions: Europe adopting it. But also in natural expansions: open source hardware.

Would be interesting if we can get a couple more opensource communities up and running and get more people interested in open source in various ways.

opensourcevehicles/opensourcetransit seems like the next logical step. (I would like to help with this)

Extra Side Notes:

Another area that can be good is opensourcebusiness (Everything related to starting, running, etc a business to make it more accessible for people. Would help more open source companies be made as well overtime)

opensourceanimation/anime (grow that part of the community to collaborate with for visual presentations of open source projects. Animated Tux would be amazing. An anime Krita mascot intro. We can get really creative), opensourcevalues (teaching values and ethics: hope, empathy, strength, we the people, gratitude, humble, etc) and opensourceuxui (grow that part of the community too to collaborate with. UX/UI community struggles with at times) to expand on main opensource software/hardware communities themselves

Personal Note:

2 more being opensourcehealth (To give a baseline of health resources people can make use of), open source housing, opensourcefood, open source water, and opensourcefinances (Baseline of finance resources). All that is more of a personal want but don't know if there is much want in the open source community for those 5.

this is a doomed idea, youd be better off doing open source ebikes and emotos

I love this idea

Eventually, electric cars will become the norm. For an open source OS it just needs enough commercial interest. That's largely what lets down alot of open source projects by the looks of it.

I saw there is a new open source printer out there now. I'm excited about that and interested to see how it goes.

Most of the public don't see the value in open source or the barriers to entry are not worth it for them.

I'm not a dev so I'm certainly not casting shade on all the wonderful projects out there, more just an observation that you usually need to learn abit about computers to be able to access these projects. I've enjoyed the learning experiences

Woudnt it be a better idea just to offer standard EV kits to turn combustion engine cars into EVs?

It's unattainable for a low budget player to create and certify a car, and support it with parts for 20 years.

Just create a kit to turn your 10 year old VW into an EV, and let VW support the parts outside of EV domain

Just a reminder that "kit cars" exist. Their existence makes the idea of "open source" cars seem more reasonable to me in that one does not need to make a large company, it is possible (though likely not profitable or cheap) to be a small car company.

Buses. They're called buses.

Good luck with that in the EU. Try to bypass eCall and your car won't score 5 stars on the Euro NCAP scale.

I'll try to find it, but I thought I saw an organization that was trying to come up with a standard Linux flavor for vehicles. If not, it definitely needs to happen

You kinda could before tesla even existed. I have a car in the garage still from the brief time when the cad/usd rate was decent but it got fucked right before I pulled the trigger on the batteries and motor. Was going to be a sick electric 80s honda civic station wagon but now its just a dusty old car.

I'm retired. I'll show up and turn bolts all day for free coffee and a couple of laughs.

A browser. Just make a browser. A FUCKING BROWSER. Don't bloviate on other topics. Don't bake AI into it. Just do ONE THING well ... make a FUCKING BROWSER.

Growing up my grandfather always had those big thick JCWhitney catalogs. They had nearly ever replacement part of a jeep. So I always wanted to buy one of the fiberglass replacement tubs (body) and make an aluminum frame under it and a bunch of batteries and a couple motors.

How exactly will my impoverished ass, who can't afford meds, has nothing left to eat atm, and is watching his parents go under with an Aspergers brother, supposed to design advanced electronic vehicles?

Until Mozilla removes their AI ambitions , you can add yourself to the list. I mean, you don't make cars. But still.

FWIW Lucid uses Linux an Tesla uses Android