Comment by korse | Hacker News Reader

Comment by korse | Hacker News Reader

I am certainly in this camp. The only vehicle in my household from post 2010 is a Ducati (and not the kind with forward looking radar ffs).

Wife traded a 2018 car for a 2005 truck and I have a 2010 sedan with a 500 mile tank and nice engine for non-bike days. We considered a Tesla model X for her but after trying it out for a few months ultimately decided against. Part of it is that we like to own our own stuff and dropping 60k+ on an asset that loses significant value in the first 200+ yards of travel seems retarded. Could have gotten a certified pre-owned Tesla I guess... but nah. Also, I have no problems with Muskie. He can go make a new world with e-girls and ketamine if he wishes.

My next vehicle is probably going to be electric but it will be home-built using a classic car chassis. I have no idea why people want to be shittily chauffeured around by a smartphone on wheels.

ELECTRIC CARS SHOULD BASICALLY HAVE THE SAME TECH STACK AS AN ELECTRIC SKATEBOARD!

Rant over. -_-

You must be living in USA, right? In my country (Poland) you can't build your own car, because it'll never get the road permit

I'm Polish and of course it's possible, in fact it's very straightforward for one-off vehicles that you don't intend to sell, it just has to have brakes, all required lights and mirrors, there are many hobbyist groups in Poland which build and register their own cars that they then drive in public roads just fine.

https://bip.gliwice.eu/pojazd-zbudowany-samodzielnie-sam

I have read a few articles when the EU directive went on in 2013 and they were saying that the homologation process required to achieve registration got so complicated that this is no longer feasible in Poland (some were advertising possibility to do it in Czech republic where the process was relaxed, but this article tells different story).

Here's newer one: https://www.farmer.pl/technika-rolnicza/maszyny-rolnicze/his...

Here's the older one: https://www.auto-swiat.pl/wiadomosci/aktualnosci/pojazd-sam-...

However newer articles do not mention the problem, so maybe it's been somehow reduced.

OP said "using a classic car chassis". I'm not particularly knowledgeable, but you can make a lot of modifications to an existing car, but building your own from the ground up would be mostly illegal. I think in some sense, the actual "car" is legally only the VIN plate or something like that. My state stop even doing safety inspections recently, and before that they were already pretty minimal; it was mostly a check that your lights and horn worked and that you had at least one mirror.

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