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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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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

WTF are you talking about? People have been modding every square inch of their cars since cars were first built.

My father-in-law, who was 40 when my wife was born, told me at 82 that it's hard for people to understand how many of our rights were stripped away during his lifetime, and how many more rights are being stripped away in our lifetimes.

So a young person today is subjected to corporate propaganda that tells them they don't have the right to work on their own vehicles because of safety/ trademarks/ licensing/ subscriptions, etc., when it's all just a scam to force us to pay for what we used to do in the driveway on a Saturday afternoon.

You can hear that capitalist propaganda, but you can choose not to believe it.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People have been modding every square inch of their cars since cars were first built.

Still, most of these modifications aren't legal on public roads in Europe unless you use certified parts and get the modifications approved. At least in Germany rules are really strict. If you replace your exhaust, rims, add a spoiler, change dampers or even use the wrong light bulbs, your vehicle's road license may be invalid and you might lose your insurance in case of an accident.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks for that perspective. We don't have those kind sof rules in America. We have a very mature car culture here, with a very long tradition of modding.

It's nearly as important to some demographics as gun ownership. The government could never get away with totally restricting people from working on their cars.