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Cars have ridiculously much electronics in them and you cannot "print" those just like that in a small shop. Have you seen how big wnd expensive a wafer fab is?
by wlievens 13y ago
Cars have ridiculously much electronics in them and you cannot "print" those just like that in a small shop. Have you seen how big wnd expensive a wafer fab is?
- adamnemecek 13y agoPresumably you don't have to "print" all parts there.
- mitochondrion 13y agoWhat's preventing all of those electronics from becoming dumb terminals and abstracting everything away to the central processing unit?
- stretchwithme 13y agoDistributed intelligence is more robust. And the electronics need to be fast for your airbag and ABS.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoI have seen what people are developing. Besides, cars do not need to have micro electronics. http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap http://medtechinsider.com/archives/24967 http://medtechinsider.com/archives/24967 http://www.nthdegreetech.com/printed-semiconductors.php http://www.nthdegreetech.com/printed-semiconductors.php That said, there will always be some things for which economies of scale win out against customisation, and I suspect that many electronics components are in that bracket. Luckily we have things like FPGAs, so you don't need to keep a huge stock of specialised chips to make a wide variety of devices.
- wlievens 13y agoI don't think there is a market for cars without micro electronics. Especially not with the rise of electric cars. FPGA's are several orders of magnitude more expensive than mass-produced electronics. Modern cars contain more than just controller electronics. What about image sensors, for instance, for automated parking systems? You can't 3D-print an image sensor. Not without a clean room at least.