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- technology@beehaw.org
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- technology@beehaw.org
cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/40677034
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.
It’s a university built concept vehicle. Schools are unbound by things like
The point is to build something that looks like the auto of the future. You missed the message entirely.
And if they said “Look at how pretty this mockup is” that would be fine. But instead they’re saying thing “Look how eco-friendly it is, and how light, and how little glue was used so you can swap bits out”. But those are all qualities that rely on this vehicle not actually being a car. If you apply any of this to a car, it stops being true.
And all but one of my observations are about it NOT looking like a car, let alone a car of the future. I don’t have any special insights, I just looked at the pictures.
The point is actually to do a really cool design project and score some free ECTS credits by having fun.