Cars To Be Assembled Atom By Atom

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Cars To Be Assembled Atom By Atom

Posted by simoniker on Sunday June 20, 2004 @05:09AM from the nano-tick-tock dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "In a new article, the Detroit News says that the adoption of nanotechnology by car manufacturers will produce safer, lighter and cheaper vehicles. While GM is already using nanocomposite materials for several vans, Ford is developing new nanoengineered catalysts to replace platinum. The newspaper gives other examples, such as auto-adaptive suspension systems, scratch-resistant paints or nanocoated windshields which will not crack. In fact, all parts in a car can be improved by using nanotechnology, according to the article. And if automakers are only going to introduce limited amounts of nanotechnology-related products in the next few years, their usage should be widespread within ten years. More details are available in this overview."

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I bet I know where they got the idea by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-20 05:15 · Score: 5, Funny

From that commercial where they build that car from legos.
Atom by atom? by Eudial · 2004-06-20 05:17 · Score: 4, Funny

Somehow i feel sorry for the poor people assigned the job of actually putting them together.

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Have a Bigger P3Ni5 Using Nonatechnology! by FFFish · 2004-06-20 05:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Etcetera. Sigh.

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1. Re:Have a Bigger P3Ni5 Using Nonatechnology! by Idarubicin · 2004-06-20 09:58 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  P3Ni5
  It kind of disturbs me that I at first read this as having something to do with a weird nickel and phosphorus compound...
  
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2. Re:Have a Bigger P3Ni5 Using Nonatechnology! by FFFish · 2004-06-20 12:27 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  a weird nickel and phosphorus compound...
  
  Definitely would be a hard one...
  
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wake me up ... by torpor · 2004-06-20 05:22 · Score: 4, Funny

when the nano-vats can be powered by a few kilo's worth of any fresh bio-mass consisting of mostly water.

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Re:Could you help me? by zephc · 2004-06-20 05:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Well, give the US auto industry enough time, they'll find a way to reconstruct dinosaurs atom by atom, then kill them, put em in the ground, and turn them in to oil. Yay, another 50 years of oil and it only took a trillion tons of biomass to die to do it!

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Re:OpenSource Nanotech? by josh3736 · 2004-06-20 05:42 · Score: 4, Funny

You'll be able to do it, it just won't be legal! (Hence why you have to download the plans off P2P.)
You see, if you grow your own car, you'd be infringing on the car company's copyright. (The car companies have have a non-expiring copyright on all Cars®, you see.)
Furthermore, growing your own car will be a felony punishable by a $1,000,000 fine and 30 years in Federal Pound-Me-In-the-Ass prison under the DMCLFMBBC (Digital Millenium Copyrights Last For a Millenium to Benefit Big Companies) Act of 2007.
Oh, and you might as well not even bother to try and download a car since your computer will just blow up anyways.