I would drive the shit out of that car
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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Those headlights look so easy to replace.
I just want a simple car. One without extraneous functions.
My old boss bought a brand new car that was in the shop for two of it's first four weeks. The issue? The capacitive touch sensor that operated the motorised glove box door was activating automatically because it was being confused by dust.
My shitty 15 year old VW's plastic glove box door has a metal latch and had never experienced this bug.
There certainly are places where technology and electronics can improve a car, but replacing one of the most basic, reliable mechanical functions such as a latch is arguably stupid. It's just adding numerous more failure points. It's form over function.
Radio/media and climate controls should not be on a f*ing touch screen either.
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Yep, there are many legitimate use-cases for electronics in cars, but THIS is definitely not one of them!
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“i upgraded the engine and one of the wheels stopped working”
Why are you using wheels anyway? Caterpillar tracks are a more modern solution and superior in every way.
I wonder what's the fastest you could go on tracks? Apparently a record was set in 1979 (121.9 km/h, 75 mph) and never broken since as far as i can tell, or at least Guiness doesn't seem to know anything about it.
Fellas, we need a tank, a couple V8 engines, and a case of beer
Your cardan.shaft is out of date, the interface for the wheels changed.
For those who, like me, wanted to know more about the real photo from which this was shopped: it's a 19-year-old Chinese student called Zhu Zhenlin driving his homemade solar car in 2012.
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There actually exists an open source community for reverse-engineering EV motors, inverters, battery charging modules, BMS, and everything else necessary to build a DIY car from scrapyard components: https://openinverter.org/wiki/Main_Page
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is there a theme to make it look like a tesla though?
Ricing has come full circle.
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You joke but I don't want modern cars because of the proprietary software.
Great car, the only one I'd consider driving! But would make my own fork with rearview mirrors first.
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well it certainly won't cost eighty fucking thousand dollars
Please post source code, i want one
I think Stallman would rather do GNU/Ebike and GNU/PublicTransit
GNU/Amsterdam
"+libre"
Rip lol
Still probably runs better than the stupid ass car I'm stuck with right now lol.
Honestly, if it's cheap enough, I'd definitely buy it
This made me chuckle, thank you, I need it today.
I'd download this!
Looks like a car from CDDA.
"Not car. Actually, it's GNU/Car." What precedes this is the sound of thousands of glasses being adjusted.
Torvalds Motors
ngl, would rather drive that than a Tesla
I wish I could improve my car for free
I overclocked it and got an extra 4 FPS! Woot!
Can a cheaply made custom electric car be even made ? With good enough range like a 160km (100miles) or so.
I guess that depends heavily on what you consider cheap... And how fast it's supposed to go.
A friend of mine started scrounging up various battery packs from e-bikes and e-scooters. For some reason these battery packs "degrade" to the point where you have to replace it to continue to use your e-transport thingy, but all the cells inside are still perfectly healthy, so he built a battery backup for his house out of scrapped e-bikes batteries.
Apparently many bike shops have stacks of the out back that they basically give away for free as it saves them a trip to the recycling station.
The motor is probably not going to be terribly cheap, and the motors on e-bikes and such are likely not powerful enough...
You obviously also need a lot of knowhow about electronics and loads more materials to actually build a car.
There are however also people who take old gasoline cars and convert them to electric cars.
Man, people are living in places where they get free batteries and am here living in hell, half of me buried in the desert sand and the other dead and hopeless in a place where they would sell tetanus ridden rust if they could.
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