Open-source car explained

An open-source car is a car with open design: designed as open-source hardware, using open-source principles.

Automobiles

Open-source cars include:

Completed and available to build, with link to CAD files and build instructions:

• OSVehicle Tabby: Tabby is the first OSVehicle: an industrializable, production ready, versatile, universal chassis.^{[1] [2]}
• LifeTrac tractor^[3] from Open Source Ecology has build instructions for most revisions^[4]

Concept stage:

• Rally Fighter, an all-terrain vehicle by Local Motors uses a design released under a CC BY-NC-SA license. The design was made piece by piece by an open community in a forum. Several units have been manufactured and sold.
• SGT01 from Wikispeed
• OScar: started in 1999, still in concept phase as of 2013.
• Riversimple Urban Car: The CAD models for the Riversimple Hyrban technology demonstrator have been released under a CC BY-NC-SA
• Common, Dutch electric car (2009)^{[5] [6]}
• eCorolla, an electric vehicle conversion
• Luka EV, an electric car production platform which first car is the Luka EV.^[7] Only Mrk I & II are open source, the source was closed in July 2016 to allow commercial production of Mrk III
• Google Community Vehicle, a multi-purpose mode of transport. It can be used as a farm vehicle that attaches to farming equipment or as a means to transport the produce. This car was created by an Indian team for the 2016 Michelin Challenge Design, "Mobility for All International Design Competition"^[8]

Self-driving car prototypes have collected petabytes of data. Some companies, including Daimler, Baidu, Aptiv, Lyft, Waymo, Argo AI, Ford and Audi have publicly released datasets under more-or-less open licenses.^[9]

Other open-source vehicles

Many open-source vehicles come in the form of velomobiles, like the PUUNK,^[10] the Hypertrike,^[11] the evovelo mö^{[12] [13]} or the Atomic Duck velomobile.^[14]

Other open-source vehicles include the Xtracycle cargo bicycles.

See also

• Modular design, subdivision of a system into smaller parts which can be independently changed
• Kit car, an automobile sold as a set of parts
• Right to repair, legal right to freely modify and repair products
• Velomobile, enclosed human-powered vehicle "bicycle car"

Notes and References

1. Bruce Sterling."Tabby, the Open Source Vehicle".2013.
2. http://www.automoto.it/news/ampelio-macchi-presenta-tabby-il-primo-scooter-ibrido-a-4-ruote-in-open-source.html "Ampelio Macchi presenta Tabby, il primo scooter ibrido a 4 ruote in open source"
3. Web site: LifeTrac – Open Source Ecology.
4. Web site: Lifetrac genealogy.
5. Web site: Kevin Hall . 'Common,' the opens-source car that anyone can design . 14 July 2009.
6. Web site: c,mm,n . 6 February 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130221170851/http://www.cmmn.org/en/get-involved.html . 21 February 2013 . dead .
7. http://www.lukaev.com/ "Luka EV – MW Motors"
8. Web site: 2016 Michelin Challenge Design: Indian Team Wins With The Google Community Vehicle – Overdrive. overdrive.in. 2015-12-14.
9. Adi Singh."Open source holds the key to autonomous vehicles".2020.
10. Alexander Vittouris, Mark Richardson "Designing for Velomobile Diversity: Alternative opportunities for sustainable personal mobility" . 2012.
11. http://www.hypertrike.org/ Hypertrike
12. Derek Markham."It's a Tricycle, It's an EV, It's Another Solar-Electric Velomobile!".
13. Glenn Meyers. "Evovelo Head-Turner: Solar-Electric mö".
14. Web site: "Atomic Duck velomobile" . 27 May 2017 . 27 May 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170527115852/http://www.deferredprocrastination.co.uk/projects/atomicduck/ . live .