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‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test

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[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 13 points 3 days ago

Just a reminder that "kit cars" exist. Their existence makes the idea of "open source" cars seem more reasonable to me in that one does not need to make a large company, it is possible (though likely not profitable or cheap) to be a small car company.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

do they make kit cars that are hybrids or electrics or have fancy safety features?

because i was looking at a real fancy lotus for like six grand a few years ago, but it was just an ice manual. i've built those before, those are easy. i do not know all these fancy new cars with regenerative braking and shit.

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

You can retrofit electric drivetrains to basically any car but it’s not cheap and takes a decent amount of research and expertise in fabrication

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

i wonder how much more practical it would be to do this kind of stuff if we standardized cars under an open platform.

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