I just don't get it

 

Why is this car thing so difficult? Why can't we produce a car that cost about $5,000?

Here's the basic idea. It has a battery. but instead of a battery with all these incredibly difficult and expensive and rare metals and all this stuff, it has a battery made out of sand and water and iron. no I don't have any idea how the physics of all this stuff works and how electrons flow through all this different stuff but I just know I want a cheap simple safe battery that doesn't pollute. If I have to replace the battery every 5000 miles so what. Make it cheap make it so easy that anybody can basically pull the thing out and Snapple want another one in. So that solves the battery a battery made out of water and sand and iron why did it take so long to think this up? The next thing we need is to simplify the drivetrain. It needs one motor probably on the passenger rear tire. We want an incredibly simple drivetrain. We don't want for motors all controlled by some super computer. We want one motor driving one wheel attached to the accelerator with your foot is pushing. Now I need to simplify the rest of it to. The thing basically needs to be a commuter. It isn't really made for bad weather. If you're going to go out on the snow and ice it's got to have some easy way to put on chains. The brakes need to be simple. It doesn't need ABS brakes. It doesn't need a lot of the crazy stuff that we built into these things. Oddly enough it does need airbags. It needs seat belts. And it needs some sort of reasonable roll cage concept. The thing could almost be made out of plastic except for the roll cage. Here's the basic idea, think matchbox car blown up to full scale. Then think at the minimal amount of stuff to create a reasonably safe car made for reasonable weather. now this car may not work back East where there's long periods of really bad weather with extremely dangerous slippery roads. But guess what millions and millions of people probably over a hundred million people live south of that area between Florida and California. These cars would be super cheap and super easy to build. Oh yeah you could even have the attitude but on snow days you take Uber or Lyft. Why can't we think outside the box? Because we're so busy competing I'm building super complicated stuff there were just not thinking what is it that people really want? Now the people that review these things they all want a Maserati for $20,000. But that's not what the average driver wants. Of course everybody dreams of a Maserati a Porsche a Ferrari and now the mid-engine Corvette, but they're not really going to drive that. They need to get back and forth to work safely maybe with a car seat and some reasonable safety features for kids. and the stuff I've seen were putting in cars now for kids is already pretty simple.

Let's quit building stuff that requires a million parts and a million miles of wiring and a whole bunch of complicated technology and get back to the model t with a heater and an air conditioner.

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