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Are there any viable open source electric vehicle initiatives out there yet?

• bongodongobob 2y ago
  As much as I love OSS I wouldn't want it in my literal daily driver. "My car shuts off when I open all the doors" "Why would you want it to run? You can't drive with your doors open! Marking as won't fix, working as intended." "It's open source! You can fix the code yourself!" No fucking thanks. Some things should cost money and have real stakes.
  • hn72774 2y ago
    Chances are there is OSS already running in commercially available vehicles. Owners tinkering with ICE vehicles was and is a thing and I don't see how an electric power train makes that too much different. Open standards and data formats would be a good middle ground to help avoid the type of problem with Fisker "unable" to migrate to a different provider. Although I wish that vehicles did not have to phone home to the mother ship at all.
    • bongodongobob 2y ago
      Of course there is, but I don't want the whole thing to be OSS code run by people with no skin in the game.
      • hn72774 2y ago
        That's a good point. Hardware + software seems a lot harder than just software too.
  • crest 2y ago
    Just because the source code is open source doesn't mean the upstream repo going into your car has to be run by a toxic community with a chip on their shoulder.
    • bongodongobob 2y ago
      No, but it probably will be.