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The title is extremely misleading, as the structural parts of the car are meant to be made of a metal tube frame, quote from article: "The design puts a tubula
by graeham 14y ago
The title is extremely misleading, as the structural parts of the car are meant to be made of a metal tube frame, quote from article:
"The design puts a tubular metal cage around the driver, “like a NASCAR roll cage,” Kor claims. And he also mentioned the possibility of printed shock-absorbing parts between the printed exterior and the chassis. "
Interesting demonstration of the technology, but if you want a light, non-structural body, carbon fibre (or even fibreglass if worried about cost) would almost certainly be cheaper and faster to produce.
- snogglethorpe 14y ago> The title is extremely misleading, as the structural parts of the car are meant to be made of a metal tube frame It sounds sort of like a classic fiberglass kit-car... IIRC, those things were often essentially cool-looking fiberglass shells on top of dune-buggy-like tubular frames.
- jere 14y agoIt's always the same damn thing with guns. Headlines talk about 3D printed firearms, but then when you actually read the article, the entire extent of the worry is "eventually hobbyists hope to print almost an entire component with a 3D printer." Shudder.