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Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" (www.dezeen.com)

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A team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology has built a prototype electric car with a built-in toolbox and components that can be easily repaired or replaced without specialist knowledge.

The university's TU/ecomotive group, which focuses on developing concepts for future sustainable vehicles, describes its ARIA concept as "a modular electric city car that you can repair yourself".

ARIA, which stands for Anyone Repairs It Anywhere, is constructed using standardised components including a battery, body panels and internal electronic elements that can be easily removed and replaced if a fault occurs.

With assistance from an instruction manual and a diagnostics app that provides detailed information about the car's status, users should be able to carry out their own maintenance using only the tools in the car's built-in toolbox, the TU/ecomotive team claimed.

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 months ago (31 children)

We have customers that can’t figure out how to turn their headlights on, or fill the washer fluid. “Repair yourself” needs to be a pretty low bar.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (18 children)

People like that are why I support public transit and walkable cities.

Cars are appliances to them, and since they’re most of the car market most cars suck.

By getting people off the road who don’t want to be there the demands of the car market will change and maybe we’ll have cool cars again.

Plus we can increase driving license and maintenance requirements so that people know to stay in the right lane and don’t have parts falling off their cars.

And since we need fewer roads we can build them better and maybe, in some places, we can have no speed limits.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago (16 children)

Plus we can increase driving license and maintenance requirements so that people know to stay in the right lane and don’t have parts falling off their cars.

Most of the world has annual safety inspections. Not North America.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Depends where you're talking about. Unfortunately most of the US states haven't figured out how to make going to the DMV (department of motor vehicles) not suck tremendously and how to keep it from taking up most of a day, so many places only do those checks whenever you have to renew the license plate tag/registration, and it's done at the DMV itself. Usually once every couple of years.

Some states allow those inspections to be done by other approved locations. Different states have different timings on how often it's required, and they all have differences as to what is actually tested and what is passing and failing.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

My state DMV is great at customer service but terrible at roads.

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