Crowdsourced car design

The open source hardware movement is rattling off the achievements at the moment. The idea of an open sourced car has been discussed before and now a company has made a business out of producing them. "Local Motors has set the wheels in motion. By crowdsourcing designs from a unique global community of designers, and manufacturing to order in regional micro-factories, Local Motors represents a paradigm shift from industry-standard mass production."

Their first car is ready to be launched and they are looking at other designs. They have ideas to replicate the model in other parts of US so designs can be reproduced locally.

Via Wired and Springwise