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

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/24122615

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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[–] JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

People already have hardware access to their own cars and make stupid modifications all the time. That's what vehicle inspections are for. Heck, I know police aren't generally popular on this instance but stopping vehicles with unsafe modifications they spot on the roads falls under their purview too. I'm from a state with inspections but have a friend who wasn't and her stories about the beater cars they drove (missing floorboards, reach out the window and push on a metal rod to use the brake) tell me the system basically works. At least as well as it can while transportation infrastructure is arranged so cars are a basic necessity for huge swaths of the country.