If you live in the US, the best place to start is with a junkyard chassis, because if you have a VIN, all else is possible.
If you want to go REALLY nuts, you can effectively create a sandrail type custom vehicle, but it'll never* be allowed on freeways
(it's not impossible, but the regulations and testing is a bit excessive)
Oh, sure, the boarding school system that murdered hundreds of native children seized by this same govt, as well as the Canadian one.
I mean, you can also look to big efforts like Germany, but don't forget a lot of that was inspired by the US and our evil methods of legally dehumanizing people.
I've basically degoogled mine as is, but I really do wish I could switch my tablet off samsung's nightmare OS.
Every update they move/change/add things, even though I have updates turned off. They keep remapping things to use that ridiculous bixby thing.
So yes, the moment it's supported, it's getting switched.
IMO, it's going to have to get much worse before it snaps, and when it snaps and there's an Arab Spring moment, it's going to be too late to recover any of it.
The world power era of the USA is over. The 'dangerous rogue nuclear state' era is here.
So now they probably want to use GenAI to create hype shots, fake reviews, review summaries, and "improve efficiencies" that are so far from their original mission you can't see it from there.
But REI is a LONG ways from being the co-op sort of place they used to pretend to be. Now they just resell cheaply manufactured trash.
If you live in the US, the best place to start is with a junkyard chassis, because if you have a VIN, all else is possible. If you want to go REALLY nuts, you can effectively create a sandrail type custom vehicle, but it'll never* be allowed on freeways
(it's not impossible, but the regulations and testing is a bit excessive)