Open-source car

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An open-source car is a car with open design: designed as open-source hardware, using open-source principles.

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Automobiles

Open-source cars include:

Completed and available to build, with link to CAD files and build instructions:

Concept stage:

Self-driving car prototypes have collected petabytes of data. Some companies, including Daimler, Baidu, Aptiv, Lyft, Waymo, Argo AI, Ford and Audi have publicly released datasets under more-or-less open licenses. [10]

Other open-source vehicles

Many open-source vehicles come in the form of velomobiles, like the PUUNK, [11] the Hypertrike, [12] the evovelo mö [13] [14] or the Atomic Duck velomobile. [15]

Other open-source vehicles include the Xtracycle.

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