Building Cars With Crowdsourced Intelligence #linuxcon

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Sean Michael Kerner
Aug 21, 2014

When Jay Rogers left the U.S. Marine Corps in 2004, he made a promise to his fallen soldier friends that he would go out into the world and make a difference. Speaking at the LinuxCon conference here, Rogers detailed how he has delivered on that promise with Local Motors, a startup that is set to enable a new era of automobiles.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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