How does open source car design work?
The honest answer is that we won’t know until we have done it. But we have plenty of ideas, which will develop over the coming months as we share the designs for the Riversimple technology demonstrator and start to produce collaboratively a production prototype. There are lots of inspiring examples from open source software, and we are being advised by people with experience in this area. But there are many differences between open source hardware and software design. Differences between open source hardware and software There are some major differences between open source software and hardware design: – There is a “gap” between the on-line design work and the finished product delivered to the consumer. Not only is there substantial physical testing to be done, but also there is significant work to be done to turn the designs into an actual functioning product (we like the analogy of a food recipe a recipe is not a meal, you need a chef to turn it into a meal). The answer we believe li
