[quote=Gizmodo]
[img]http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/11/500x_3dprintedcar1.jpg[/img]
If clothes can be made by 3D printers, it only figures that cars can be, too. The same company that teamed up with HP for their "affordable" 3D printer has made the world's first 3D-printed car, Urbee.
Dripping each layer of material bit by bit in the additive manufacturing process, the Urbee is a two-seat car made by 3D printing guys Stratasys and engineering company Kor Ecologic. All of the body parts were made using 3D printers, including the glass panels.
One day it'll hopefully be put on the production line and do its bit for the environment, if Kor Ecologic follows through on its hybrid promise. For now though, it runs on gasoline and ethanol (getting up to 200 miles to the gallon). The design is pretty sleek and space-age like, and can be seen at Las Vegas' SEMA Show this week.[/quote]
[url=http://gizmodo.com/5678476/the-worlds-first-3d+printed-car-actually-works]Source[/url]
Holy. Shit.
Mass manufacturers will be so fucking stoked over this if the technology improves a bit and they sell more 3D printers. Hell, if it improves enough, we might even have advanced enough technology to create spaceships somewhat cheaply.
Of course I don't know how this thing works, so I could just be dead wrong.
Must cost a fortune in ink.
:science:
:love:
[QUOTE=windwakr;26035801]I doubt this will get take over car manufacturing ever. Too many jobs would be lost.[/QUOTE]
That's a good thing.
If machines did all of the work humans currently do, no one would have to do anything.
If we keep replacing jobs with highly efficient machines, eventually people will work less and less hours, until they barely have to work at all.
It used to take working all day of a family working just to make enough food to be self sustaining, now you work 8 hours a day and you can feed your whole family.
Besides, people who work in car manufacturing are overpaid.
Yeah but if we start depending too much on machines, jump a few generations and something goes seriously wrong and you're left with humans that can't do jack by themselves and will quickly starve to death.
I swear it looks computer-generated in that picture, so sleek and flat.
Awesome.
Hopefully they didn't use Epson printers
Fucking things leave ugly lines all over my pictures
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;26035880]That's a good thing.
If machines did all of the work humans currently do, no one would have to do anything.
If we keep replacing jobs with highly efficient machines, eventually people will work less and less hours, until they barely have to work at all.
It used to take working all day of a family working just to make enough food to be self sustaining, now you work 8 hours a day and you can feed your whole family.
Besides, people who work in car manufacturing are overpaid.[/QUOTE]
:doh:
calling wizard shenanigans
Awesome
[QUOTE=RayDark;26035957]:doh:[/QUOTE]
Prove me wrong, I realize it's incredibly idealist, but eventually the 8 hour a day standard will be reduced as technology advances in order to create more possible jobs.
What.
That's some real scifi movie shit.
Words cannot describe
[QUOTE=DeanWinchester;26035921]Yeah but if we start depending too much on machines, jump a few generations and something goes seriously wrong and you're left with humans that can't do jack by themselves and will quickly starve to death.[/QUOTE]
Or so you've been taught by science fiction books and movies.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGXZ4aTh7es[/media]
How 3D printing basically works. It prints layer after layer of a special ink. Skip to 1:00 for the action.
Time lapse:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BCru1xX814&feature=related[/media]
[img_thumb]http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4641/youwouldntdlacar.jpg[/img_thumb]
well now you can!
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;26035880]That's a good thing.
If machines did all of the work humans currently do, no one would have to do anything.
If we keep replacing jobs with highly efficient machines, eventually people will work less and less hours, until they barely have to work at all.
It used to take working all day of a family working just to make enough food to be self sustaining, now you work 8 hours a day and you can feed your whole family.
Besides, people who work in car manufacturing are overpaid.[/QUOTE]
Actually, a society where nobody would work would be horrible. People are already becoming fat, if nobody would do anything at all then eventually we would turn into something like the people on the spaceship in WALL-E, so fat that we cant even walk on our own.
I would really like to see a video on how this car was "printed"
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;26036112]Actually, a society where nobody would work would be horrible. People are already becoming fat, if nobody would do anything at all then eventually we would turn into something like the people on the spaceship in WALL-E, so fat that we cant even walk on our own.[/QUOTE]
Why is other people being fat a problem?
Why do people have a hidden hate for fat people?
Being fat isn't the end-all.
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;26036134]I would really like to see a video on how this car was "printed"[/QUOTE]
It's probably a really slow process that would be terribly boring to look at
Doesn't even look real, looks animated..
I really need to see a real life video of this.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;26036112]Actually, a society where nobody would work would be horrible. People are already becoming fat, if nobody would do anything at all then eventually we would turn into something like the people on the spaceship in WALL-E, so fat that we cant even walk on our own.[/QUOTE]
That was caused by microgravity, not laziness.
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[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;26036149]Why is other people being fat a problem?
Why do people have a hidden hate for fat people?
Being fat isn't the end-all.[/QUOTE]
Might as well write "butthurt fat guy" in your forehead with a sharpie, man.
[QUOTE=windwakr;26035801]I doubt this will get take over car manufacturing ever. Too many jobs would be lost.[/QUOTE]
People thought the same thing about the steam engine, too.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;26036149]Why is other people being fat a problem?
Why do people have a hidden hate for fat people?
Being fat isn't the end-all.[/QUOTE]
I dont want to be fat again, I was when I was younger, and it was a real pain in the ass to lose weight
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Also, most fat people are ugly, and die early.
[editline]13th November 2010[/editline]
(thankfully)
200 mpg noice
[QUOTE=latin_geek;26036190]
Might as well write "butthurt fat guy" in your forehead with a sharpie, man.[/QUOTE]
:confused:
I'm not fat. lol
All of your arguments are non-arguments.
You say it's terrible that if everyone in the world was fat, but you don't explain why that's bad.
There's no reason to assume people will naturally do that to themselves, most people are socially conscious and keep themselves in shape for social reasons.
I hate to do this but look at the jersey shore stars.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;26035880]That's a good thing.
If machines did all of the work humans currently do, no one would have to do anything.
If we keep replacing jobs with highly efficient machines, eventually people will work less and less hours, until they barely have to work at all.
It used to take working all day of a family working just to make enough food to be self sustaining, now you work 8 hours a day and you can feed your whole family.
Besides, people who work in car manufacturing are overpaid.[/QUOTE]
Are you that fucking stupid?
Say hello to poor economy.
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