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Seems highly unlikely that the guy can make a road-legal truck in his garage for sale, but best of luck to him.
He’s been talking about it for years and from what I’ve seen has never shown a single thing. He seems to jump around between different vaguely related side hustles.
He might be a fraud. Don’t know. It’s a good initiative anyway. I’ve been waiting for FOSS DIY cars to become popular for 15+ years. Don’t know why it never really takes off. Well, probably because of the big players lobbying/preventing, regulations and the lack of capital.
I think it’s a bit the other way around. The “side hustles” ARE his main gig and how he raised the money to buy the warehouse. The car gig is the dream gig he wants and is working toward and is hoping social media can get him there.
I mean, cool. But has he actually shown anything? So far I’ve just seen well edited videos and nothing of substance other than owning a warehouse. 🤷
I’ve watched a bunch of his videos before. He has an old abandoned car factory with a ton of equipment. No idea how any of the building maintenance has been paid for since they were in rough shape but would be cool to see it in action. Not sure YouTube ad dollars and patreon will carry him all the way there though
He explained they will be selling as a kit not a complete car. most states have a ‘kit car’ registration option for things like custom tube chassis cars. Would a dealership be able to sell them new and fully built? Almost certainly not.
Ah, I must have missed that. Thanks for that extra bit of context.
I think that the Cybertruck is proof that anyone who knows how to use a welding torch can create a road legal vehicle in the US
the cybertruck was made by a very rich pedo though. those are above the rules.
Well, not made by. He’s a capitalist after all. 🙂
Not to mention, at the end of the video he says he’s in need of specialists of basically every kind needed for the project. I have the same level of capability to complete this project, though the video’s popularity speaks to the demand for it
Trump 3 will introduce sweeping deregulation of automobiles.
Somehow it still won’t allow byd electric cars despite them being able to go a 1000 miles on a single charge and it taking less time to recharge than it does now by then
If it won’t you can be sure it’s because that sector didn’t pay their bribes.
Would more likely be a forceful regulation of cars.
More likely we would be trying to push out imported cars by pushing some kind of “american saftey” regulation. Maybe claiming that the imported cars have Chinese spyware in them (but the spyware in our cars is cool), or by saying that they are trying to flood the market with cheap unsafe garbage cars so we need to tarrif them even more to save our domestic car market.
All while we forcefully regulated in more computers that make the roads even more unsafe. No one can turn their god damn neck anymore because of those stupid blind spot detectors and lane assist just means you can text while driving now. Oh and every car needs to collect more data than your phone can do legally. Bullshit computers won’t let you change the MOTOR for your windshield because the part is Vin locked so you have to spend 500 dollars on just the motor before the technician who is the only person allowed to work on your car, charges you 2.5 grand in labor. All that for a fix that uses to cost 20 dollars at a pick and pull.
Another route we can go is because cars have so many cameras the cars now have to have some American made operating system forced into them for “national security” which Honda, KIA, etc will all have to scramble to get working and it will be a disastrous mess that bricks cars, and causes a lot of issues.
In no way shape or form are cars going to become cool again and become deregulated. If anything gets deregulated its the consumer protections for data collection. Cars are on track to be this thing you are not allowed to own, but like a autonomous taxi that you indefinitely rent, and have no control or ownership over. It will be a narc and report and record everything you do. Its like public transport, but you have to pay the price for the whole car, and pay a monthly subscription for it on top of paying for the matience (that only the OEM can do at a $250 a hr labor charge).
I can only wish cars could become more degregulated. Im still bittered we bailed out the automotive industry all for them to keep fucking us in the ass with shittier bigger trucks that break down more often and we have to pay off for two to three presidential terms. Fucking China has the equivalent of a Tesla for 16k, and in the united States I can buy a Ford bronco for 36 months at 450 dollars a month.
Maybe claiming that the imported cars have Chinese spyware in them (but the spyware in our cars is cool)
I mean exporting that data to a nefarious authoritarian foreign nation seems much worse than keeping it local. Not that any of it is “good”.
I classify anything thing that’s not foss as malware/spyware, and even then I cant even fully trust that.
If you really want to go down the rabbit hole the only thing that will end up making sense is temple OS. But no one really cares that much about privacy to be that inconvienced.
It was more to point out that its kind of hypocritical because its not like we aren’t doing the same thing. If anything I see the US goverment as a more of a threat because everything they do is directly effecting me. With China I cant be certain and can only blindly speculate what bad stuff is happening. I don’t directly see how I’m getting fucked so theres some willful ignorance I enjoy having occasionally. Its not like here how they use the cars meta data to make your insurance rates go up, or deny you coverage in a crash because they can point at a metric. Theres no face to the evil.
It’s not hypocritical. One is local and the other is foreign.
Its just the way you keep pushing this issue implies that because the forgien one is bad, we should justify the local one being bad.
If anything I support the forgien one more because you know I expect them to be bad guys. If these entities where people how would you feel with them sleeping with your wife? The “foreigner Chinese bloke” would probably sting when you found out, but it would be nothing in comparison when your good Christian church leader Mr ford does it. Even worse the church leader will gas light you about it not happening, while continuing to double down and bring other guys over to fuck your wife. And he can only do this because hes local.
the way you keep pushing this issue implies that because the forgien one is bad, we should justify the local one being bad.
It implies no such thing. Any such interpretation can be attributed to your imagination. What it means is simply that one is worse than the other.
If anything I support the forgien one more because you know I expect them to be bad guys.
That makes absolutely no sense.
Sounds like imperial measurements and parts:(
Hopefully that can change if supporters/contributors provide feedback.
Why wouldn’t you want your open-source user serviceable vehicle to use parts available within your continent??? Seriously, what are you trying to even say
Even the American car industry widely uses metric parts. These parts are easily available not just around the world, but in the US as well.
I used to work in manufacturing in the auto industry. Everything is already metric in the US. People working on US made cars have the privilege of losing a 10mm socket just like the rest of the world.
continent? the only place in america that uses shitty imperial units is the burger reich
burger reich
As an American, I’ll admit this one is a good dig
sadly i didnt invent it but i also found it very funny when i saw it lol
my bad
Can we get an open source American compact coupé?
Kinda wanted to watch that, but had stop after the unskippable car ad (lol) a few minutes in
If you’re not blocking ads you’re a class traitor
yes, denying google ad revenue is good.
watching on freetube or pipepipe/freepipe is even better, as they don’t get your data
On a platform that doesn’t allow ad-blockers, I’m guessing?
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