It’s a few months old, but in light of recent events I think it still checks out. Make sure to watch the walkaround!
Can we please get a car that’s not a giant SUV?
I dread the day I’ll have to replace my golf.
Yes, I don’t love that part either. Technically, it’s a crossover, but it’s big and boxy either way. Unfortunately, everyone north of Mexico has been successfully brainwashed to worry about the hypothetical day they need to bring a mattress home (and there’s no delivery offered for some reason).
And then again, a hatchback or a station wagon has a lot more space than an SUV.
Unfortunate name… Not sure if chosen on purpose
RIP avro arrow
Definitely deliberate. It flies again!
If you scroll down their page there’s a photo of the car with RCAF roundels parked under the nose of an Avro.
Edit: just realized I clicked a link from a different comment not the original post.
Seriously can we just have a car without all the self-driving bullshit though. Make an electric car that’s affordable and Canadian-made FIRST, then work on the autonomous shit
I just want a car that goes with buttons and knobs for everything. No cameras, no touch screens, just Bluetooth pair and/or aux port for the radio.
Buttons and knobs for sure, though I’d prefer to have a backup camera and I do appreciate the one for right-hand turns on the mirror of my car.
Backup cameras are mandatory on new cars.
I’m not actually sure how much the hardware for self-driving costs. The billions being poured in are for the software development, and once software is made it can be copied for free, like the Chinese did with LLMs recently.
That being said, this was a concept car. They might leave that and the gimmicky smartfabric out in a production version. And have doors that both open the same way, so people can all exit at once in a crowded parking lot.
Lidar, all the cameras/sensors, and the processing unit for all this definitely cost money.
My car it cost $300 to replace a windshield. My wife’s it cost over $1000 due to the optics/sensor unit behind the windshield
I should really say “by car standards”. Of course a GPU isn’t free, but when a low-end new EV costs 30,000-50,000CAD the extra couple grand isn’t too crazy. If you don’t want it, I guess it’s still a couple grand, though.
Again, though, I could see the licensing costing an order of magnitude more, although I don’t really know.
it cost over $1000 due to the optics/sensor unit behind the windshield
That actually just seems like robbery, haha. We’re talking about the kind that detects fouling, which probably is a glorified mouse tracker, right?
Perhaps someone in Britain or Canada should resurrect the Avro marque and use it for electric cars or similar?
I’m so fucking here for this.
Yes please!
I’m not sure about the maple flooring, though. I’d buy it, sounds easy to clean, but when every vehicle is carpeted it looks unfinished or something. It also better be treated for waterproofing.
You have to think that anything which buys auto parts from this side of the border and sells to consumers will be suddenly very profitable, coming up.
This sounds cool, but it doesn’t look like it’s intended to ever go to market.
Maybe there will be a pivot with the current political situation state-side, but that doesn’t seem to be the purpose of this project.
Still, a project worth rooting for! I just signed up to receive updates straight from their website: https://projectarrow.ca/
