Comments on: What can we learn from the early success of Local Motors, the first open source car? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-can-we-learn-from-the-early-success-of-local-motors-the-first-open-source-car/2012/03/14 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:47:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Sepp Hasslberger https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-can-we-learn-from-the-early-success-of-local-motors-the-first-open-source-car/2012/03/14/comment-page-1#comment-491113 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:08:42 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=22927#comment-491113 Local manufacturing – while Local Motors is part of this, I see local manufacturing plants that make everything from a washing machine to a garden tool and even a computer by either printing it out or assembling readily available parts right there for you.

Software is going to be of great importance, as will be the availability of standard parts, both mechanical and electronic, that can be combined in various creative ways.

This is going to be a great change in how we make things. We can have them personalized and they will still cost less than a comparable thing manufactured by big industry…

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