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It's bold, audacious, visionary and will most likely fail. I love it! Now if only they could find a way to recruit great engineers to do the heavy lifting to ac
by lowkey 17y ago
It's bold, audacious, visionary and will most likely fail. I love it! Now if only they could find a way to recruit great engineers to do the heavy lifting to actually engineer and manufacture these vehicles. Kind of reminds me of Cambrian House - only harder because it is hardware. It might makes sense if they sold virtual cars, but as for actually producing vehicles in any volume I think it is far fetched.
- AriFerreira 17y agoWe are building a community of engineers to work alongside the community of designers at local-motors.com. We already had one "Parts-Bin" competition to design the Rally Fighter side vent; the community chose the winner - a cohesive, functional and low-cost side-vent. As the community grows we will undertake more challenges in the engineering arena. After the LM community & team fully develop each vehicle, some building occurs in a centralized location (like chassis welding, etc.) Then each customer joins LM experts in the Local Micro-Factory (we will build micro-factories in regions across the US, hence the "Local" :)) for the build experience & training. Vehicles are built Just-In-Time by each individual customer. This project takes two short weekends. If you have an LM vehicle, you have a more powerful understanding of your vehicle - because you built it. Seems crazy to crowdsource such a large physical product. But mostly we are crowdsourcing desire and ideas so that we can build only desirable cars. Local Motors has to make many decisions independently in order to make it to market in an efficient, cost-effective manner.