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Tesla Roadster is now open source

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41 pointsivanmontillam17 comments

“Tesla Roadster is now open source” does not appear to be the title of that page. I also couldn’t find any open source licenses or info about how to make a Tesla Roadster.

Yes, this title was badly editorialized. Submitters: please don't do that! The site guidelines include "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's welcome, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

sorry about it dang, I hesitated to editorialize and I thought it was allowed.

if this was your source, I'd call it justified, myself

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1727392569238159491

It's ok, now you know! Probably the thing to do would have been to post the tweet and use it for the title, and then link to the other site from the comments.

Looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38383099 did that, so we'll move the comments there.

Its a direct quote from tweet that Elon Musk just posted linking the page.

HN's title rules kind of imply 'don't take titles from Elon Musk's tweets' as well.

It's fine if that's the submitted URL of course.

It would still have been a poor title with a long debate over the meaning of 'open source'.

Not really. It dropped a critical word from the tweet.

Looks like the tweet actually says:

> All design & engineering of the original @Tesla Roadster is now fully open source.

> Whatever we have, you now have.

> https://service.tesla.com/roadster

That still feels inaccurate though. There’s lots of repair info on that page but I can’t imagine they don’t have e.g. some sort of CAD files for the body of the car.

The body is Lotus property I’d imagine.

False. His quote has the word “original” in it.

Title should say “original” Tesla Roadster. This doesn’t apply to the future / vaporware one.

I think this is a wonderful gesture by Tesla and should be encouraged by the OSS community. It looks pretty complete to me, but even if it's missing some items (CAD files?) it's still a move in the right direction. My wish would be that making information available for older products becomes a norm (again?). This makes keeping things working so much easier and is good for the planet. This is a win-win in my book!

I don't see any source code, wiring diagrams, or service manuals. Clickbait?

I saw wiring diagrams aplenty. You didn’t? Look again.

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