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Global Electric Motorcars Powered by Open Source Software

September 1st, 2005 · 1 Comment

Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) is a green car powered by open source software.

Global Electric Motorcars Powered by Open Source Software

Each Blobject car comes with a touch-screen computer system mounted in the dash. Through a USB port, you can plug in a flash drive containing information on Cordoba in Spanish, English or French.

By using GPS technology, the computer keeps track of exactly where you are in the city.

When you pass a certain landmark, the computer then knows to display the appropriate text, audio and video information about that landmark on the screen.

The computer system is based on open source software developed by a company in Seville, Spain. As with any open source software, anyone can improve and change Blobject’s code, as long as those improvements and changes are shared with others.

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Price: starting at $6995

Thought:

I gonna get this car and modify the software to create my own unique car! :D

Tags: Autos

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 LiewCF.com // Sep 1, 2005 at 4:14 pm

    Open Source Car

    This car — Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) — is a geen car powered by open source software! Now, every computer geek can modify the car system! Cool huh?

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