The largest open-source dataset of car designs, including their aerodynamics

toss1 | 316 points

Its a few hundred gigabyte. You can only login with an institutional account. My research institute is very small, can I borrow someone's login credentials? (email in profile).

morphle | 19 days ago

Can someone show what the most aerodynamic cars in the dataset look like? Does it specify the drag coefficient? Curious to know how many of the 8000 shapes reach < 2.0, should be at most a handful.

tromp | 18 days ago

This is also available at https://caemldatasets.org/ with no access restrictions.

Koala_ice | 18 days ago

Somewhat related: Can someone tell me why all those new electric cars are so poorly designed in terms of size and weight? Most of them weight over 2t and have a large frontal area (VW ID.4 is the prime example). I just want an economical family vehicle (lightweight, hatchback design) and there aren't that many options. Isn't that something loads of people want or am I the exotic one?

aquafox | 19 days ago

I recently wanted to design a flying wing/rc plane. Is there any FOSS to get reasonable results for aerodynamics?

WhatsName | 19 days ago

Can't wait to see this in GTA6 mod.

3abiton | 18 days ago
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| 19 days ago

So to clarify, this does not include models of actual cars. This is a set of models generated by randomising some parameters. Basically it's a set or random car shapes based of one template.

vincnetas | 17 days ago

For what use is this?

bmitc | 19 days ago

Very nice.

MichaelTheGeek | 19 days ago

O great. More cars that look identical.

tomjen3 | 19 days ago

> Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Non-commercial licenses are not open source.

RobotToaster | 19 days ago

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Y_Y | 19 days ago