Open source - the future of automobiles?

Did he say open sores? - YES the auto industry is an open sore, and now a revolutionary group has come along to completely shatter the box.

River Simple has come along and built the Open Source hydrogen car - they have running prototypes, and will actually be field testing 50 or more units with the public next year.

Ok - so ya everyone knows Hydrogen is the way of the future - but these guys have gone 100 steps beyond that. They built a car that was built for hydrogen - verses conventional cars that are being re-designed and fitted for hydrogen - they did not do a "re-design", they did a design from scratch. Eliminating the weight of the motor and transmission, reduces the need for this huge frame subsystem to hold back all the other weight in an accident.

So - they have attacked the "fuel problem", the next thing they attacked was the "industry problem" - yes the auto industry truly is "the problem" - their plan is a whole new industry where cars are never sold, but leased, {now here's the difference} with the cost of maintenance, FUEL, insurance and retirement of the vehicle built into the lease - this forces the manufacturer to produce a more reliable and more efficient vehicle. - Imagine if the automobile maker had to pay for the fuel their filthy car uses.

Further more - by opening the design to public input, engineering is ratified to the nth degree, greatly speeding the design process and bringing in a much wider view of ideas that a conventional automobile design team will always be limited on. This portion of the project is managed by the 40 fires foundation.

Dont get me wrong - I love cars, love fuel, love power and speed, but I dont get how a company like Hyundai can make a powerful sports sedan that has 274 horse power but gets 35 mpg, while everyone else is stuck in the mud making sports cars - or even normal cars that cant break 20-25 mpg. Because they are holding back, and it is something like this hydro car that will expose everything.