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C,mm,n, the world's first open-source car

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Earlier this week c,mm,n (website in Dutch), the world's first open-source car, was revealed at AutoRAI, the Amsterdam car show. The initiative and vision behind the c,mm,n (pronounced "common") comes from the "Stichting Natuur en Milieu" (The Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment) and the three technical universities of Delft, Eindhoven and Enschede.

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The car may be on display but it's far from ready. It's very futuristic. Any real for-sale vehicles aren't expected before 2020. One nice feature I saw on the website is the ability to drive in single file. You just indicate that you want to join the file and the car does the rest. The other cars automatically make room and your vehicle joins in. From then on all the cars in the row drive the vehicles together and the driver can simply swivel his chair around to face the passengers. Even the weird shape of the car comes from that. It's optimized for air resistance when driving in single file, close together at high speeds.

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