Cars and FOSS: Sweet Ride, or Crash in the Making?

With the frequent focus on mobile machinations and desktop deliberations here in the Linux blogosphere, it would be easy to assume that all else in the FOSS fiefdom is relatively conflict-free. Easy, perhaps -- but dead wrong, nonetheless. Case in point: cars. There's a growing movement to apply the open source model to the design and manufacturing of electric cars.

Source: http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632000/s/1e6e8e66/l/0L0Stechnewsworld0N0Crsstory0C748670Bhtml/story01.htm

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