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Re: Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars.

From Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org>
Newsgroups sci.space.policy, sci.physics, rec.arts.sf.science, sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars.
Date 2017-07-04 20:08 -0600
Message-ID <es301qFn3nU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <MPG.33c4512ea53f49f9989982@news.eternal-september.org> <mueq2e-6t6.ln1@mail.specsol.com> <MPG.33c46fcdc289aa9b989984@news.eternal-september.org> <slnq2e-pn7.ln1@mail.specsol.com> <cpednfz5OtPzscbEnZ2dnUU78dudnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>

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David Mitchell <david.robot.mitchell@gmail.com> wrote:

>jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>
>> And about the only place where weight matters that much is in things
>> that fly and in that case useless mass is already gone from the design
>> without the expense of 3D printing.
>>
>> Have you ever looked at the interior structures of an aircraft?
>>
>> 3D printing is, and always will be, a niche manufacturing method.
>
>"Nobody needs more than 640K"
>
>I don't really think it's sensible to say "never" wrt technology - you're 
>judging a very immature technology

The Altair was obsolete in two years.  The Apple ][ was obsolete in
five, though genius level reworkings kept it going for what, 12?  The
context for that quote was the decision to build a computer with ten
times the memory capacity of the normal business computer out there at
the time, with the expectation that they would totally revamp the
design in a few years.  Remember that was the time when Microsoft bet
big on Unix as the next big thing.  Nobody expected to be finding ISA
compatible computers running a compatible OS 35 years later.


>
>The biggest problem wrt printing vehicles will, I suspect, be the legislation 
>governing safety.

-- 
We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.

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