If they ever let anything like that happen, it would be more like buying time on an assembly line than having "a shop" build it. That would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for one car. Of course that isn't possible with today's assembly lines either because they'd have to retool for certain designs, so you'd have to develop something more generalizable and automated. That factory would basically be a precursor to the Universal Constructor or replicators.

Alternatively I've always wished some company would create an open auto platform, so where we could buy parts from different vendors to build our own cars like we do with PCs. That would make safety regulators go crazy though. You wouldn't get a Celica but anyone could make their own similar designs.

If they ever let anything like that happen, it would be more like buying time on an assembly line than having "a shop" build it. That would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for one car. Of course that isn't possible with today's assembly lines either because they'd have to retool for certain designs, so you'd have to develop something more generalizable and automated. That factory would basically be a precursor to the Universal Constructor or replicators.

Alternatively I've always wished some company would create an open auto platform, so where we could buy parts from different vendors build our own cars like we do with PCs. That would make safety regulators go crazy though. You wouldn't get a Celica but anyone could make their own similar designs.

If they ever let anything like that happen, it would be more like buying time on an assembly line than having "a shop" build it. That would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for one car. Of course that isn't possible with today's assembly lines either because they'd have to retool for certain designs, so you'd have to develop something more generalizable and automated. That factory would basically be a precursor to the Universal Constructor or replicators.

Alternatively I've always wish some company would create an open auto platform, so where we could buy parts from different vendors build our own cars like we do with PCs. That would make safety regulators go crazy though. You wouldn't get a Celica but anyone could make their own similar designs.