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1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by ardit33 »

It is basically a Mustang body on a tesla chasis... which misses the point of having a classic car.

While there is nothing wrong with converting your classic car to electric, if the powertrain is shot (they are harder to maintain as they age), but IMO, it looses the charm of the point of having a classical car.

Few years ago, there was a trend to do these conversions, but that stopped as people realised the car loses its charm and the feel of having old classic car, and most of them are not being used as dailies anyways.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by technothrasher »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #9

Whatever happened to the electric delorean reboot? EDIT: at one point whoever owned the name also owned a warehouse of spare parts and was going to produce an electric retrofit kit for the old vehicle, and hinting at manufacturing new ones a la retromod. Whoever owns the name now just has concept rendering on their site and a Solana token, so, little more than a meme coin now :(

I believe Stephen Wynne, the man you're referring to, still owns the new DMC company, and he did even produced a concept car of his Alpha5 model. But since 2022, there hasn't been much activity. His classic DMC parts sales side of the business is still active though.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by brk »

Induane wrote: post #43
public_void wrote: post #37

I used to work at a company that did self driving. The sensor setup was more complicated than Tesla (cameras, lidar, etc), but the fact that FSD can still work on this car despite the cameras being in a different place is really impressive to me. Our sensors were pretty sensitive to accurate calibration, and iirc any time we tried to move our sensor array to a new car it took a ton of work to reconfigure it to make t…

This is one of the real advantages to the (often insulted and/or chastised) vision only approach to FSD. People can easily adapt to different vehicles in a similar manner.

Most sensors can be implemented in a way that enables self-calibration.

I'm oversimplifying it here, but the macro process is taking some known attributes and mapping them to what you are observing. For example, if you can detect people, and you know the average height of a person, you can compute where your horizon is, and where you should (or shouldn't) expect to see people in the FOV. You can do this with cameras, lidar, etc. When you have multiple sensors you can do a lot more to have them all sample an object in their own ways and converge on agreement of where they are relative to each other and the object.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by KaiserPro »

hnav wrote: post #25

Retro-electric stuff makes so little sense since it's the worst of all worlds. Part of why Teslas get decent range is the slippery body. I wince every time I see people clamoring for the VW Scout reboot. Rivian too with their 140kwh batteries just to give people that nostalgic body-on-frame SUV look with usable range.

> Retro-electric stuff makes so little sense since it's the worst of all worlds.

old cars are bastards to drive. I have a softspot for a mark 2 VW golf. But its not fast, the steering is heavy and the brakes are utterly shite.

However, if I had the time and money, I would totally electrify a golf. it would be zippy quiet and hilarious to drive, especially without any kind of traction control.

However it would be fun.

Basically its like vinyl. It is a demonstrably worse format than anything digital(and other analogue formats), however it looks great. Sure you get lots of audiophiles waffle on about "warmth" and shit, but its all lies. they either like it because its how they think things should sound, or it looks cool. It is not a purer warmer sound.

same with backyard steam engines. useless but fucking cool

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by KaiserPro »

loeg wrote: post #24

> It’s likely the first non-Tesla vehicle to run FSD, and it achieves 258 Wh/mi — roughly matching the efficiency of an actual Model 3. This claim is implausible, right? The Mustang is unambiguously less aerodynamic than the Model 3; there's no way it is achieving similar efficiency, especially at highway speeds.

Yes it is implausible. But I imagine that they are probably not running it at 70 mph everywhere, just pootling about in suburbia

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by kylegordon »

SoftTalker wrote: post #47

It would be cool if we saw the separation of drivetrain from body in the automobile market. This happens with heavy trucks, you can buy a "glider" which is a completely new, finished rolling chassis and you provide your own engine. Originally done (I think) to skirt emissions laws but it would be cool to be able to buy the body and the EV drivetrain (and maybe battery packs?) from different vendors, and for EV drivet…

The team sat Electric Classic Cars are doing that, you can soon buy a skateboard chassis and drivetrain from them, and bolt whatever body you want to it.

Their recent videos showcase what they're doing in that area https://www.youtube.com/@ElectricClassicCars/videos

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by Leonard_of_Q »

dylan604 wrote: post #58
RankingMember wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, that's exactly what it is. Still a cool project. For a split-second after reading the headline my brain thought they had gotten the Tesla software (with a lot of hackery) to control an ICE vehicle drive-train.

For a split-second after reading the headline, I thought they were claiming FSD works.

It does work in driving the car where it is able to. Where it fails is in the 'full' part. After 10 billion miles driven on 'auto-pilot' [1] it is hard to claim it 'does not work'. Tesla would have been better off removing the 'F' from 'FSD' but that's water under the bridge.

[1] https://electrek.co/2026/05/03/tesla-fsd-10-billion-miles-no...

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