“Tesla Roadster is now open source” does not appear to be the title of that page. I also couldn’t find any open source licenses or info about how to make a Tesla Roadster.
Yes, this title was badly editorialized. Submitters: please don't do that! The site guidelines include "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's welcome, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
It's ok, now you know! Probably the thing to do would have been to post the tweet and use it for the title, and then link to the other site from the comments.
That still feels inaccurate though. There’s lots of repair info on that page but I can’t imagine they don’t have e.g. some sort of CAD files for the body of the car.
I think this is a wonderful gesture by Tesla and should be encouraged by the OSS community. It looks pretty complete to me, but even if it's missing some items (CAD files?) it's still a move in the right direction. My wish would be that making information available for older products becomes a norm (again?). This makes keeping things working so much easier and is good for the planet. This is a win-win in my book!
