Annoyingly, it gets through the entire article pretty much without explaining what the hell JLCPCB is, assuming that you must know what they are. It appears to be a Chinese PCB (printed circuit board) manufacturer, where you can send them a schematic and they will make a PCB of whatever you desire. It appears that they are now limiting who they take orders from, and it seems likely that other Chinese PCB manufacturers will take the same step in the future.
Overall I enjoy reading Hackaday’s articles, But this was too much “inside baseball” since they didn’t bother explaining what JLCPCB was.
Yeah, was thinking more the “2 cars” vs 1. And $70/month to have backup transport may be worth it if it’s paid off. But yes, the EV would be cheaper to run.
It’s fair. Whiff of AI summarization, gives some idea of what’s been proposed over the century and that most is crank. Mentions the asymmetric propulsion that I thought NASA had briefly funded. Talks a lot how awesome it would be IF…
“openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 300+ supported cars.”
Since that was all Greek to me. And I speak Greek.