• Batmorous@lemmy.world
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    Time for opensourcevehicles and opensourcetransit to become a thing. I’m one of many people interested in doing that. Anyone have spitball ideas on how to go about doing that?

    Trying to think up some simpler first projects, how to get it funded, and how to get a community for that up and running

    Also, some people were interested in making opensourcebusiness community. If anyone is still interested then please do it there was 7 people I remember that were interested at the time for that

    We can also get opensourceanimation, opensourceuiux, and way more up and running. To slowly transform our world and get open source to grow even more

    Edit: Would be cool for people to get community projects made for bikes, electric bikes, bike-cars, cars, VTOL’s, and way more overtime. Trams, trolleys, trains, high speed rail, airplanes, submarines, airships, etc

    Edit 2: Main focus being people-focused transit. Didn’t realize I was in fuckcars. If we are going to have any transit might as well be open source especially EV’s

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          I’m not sure how much about a regular bike needs to be any more open source than it already is. The patent has long since expired. It’s not like there’s any major bike manufacturer trying to lock in owners.

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      Someone elsewhere in the thread linked https://www.openmotors.co/product/tabbyevo/, which I had never heard of before and which is actually pretty fascinating.

      I’d obviously say the best open source vehicles are bikes and scooters, but I understand that currently isn’t an option for everyone and that even in the ideal scenario there’s going to need to be a small number of cars, trucks and vans. IDK how practical something like this will really be, but it’s at least pretty neat.

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        Awesome thanks for the heads up! Feel like it will be possible just for bigger projects it will definitely need a community open source everything approach