Tuesday, 6 February 2018

The Fascinating Company That Tears Cars Apart To Find Out Exactly How They're Built

quote [ Imagine a place where auto engineers can check out parts of competitors’ cars like they’re library books. And where they can participate in deep-dive lectures on how other companies build vehicle systems, how the systems work, and how much they cost to make. That’s what Munro does. ]

It's like the pirate bay or cars
[SFW] [do it yourSElf] [+6 Interesting]
[by satanspenis666@5:32amGMT]

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cb361 said[1] @ 9:29am GMT on 6th Feb [Score:5 Funny]
It may not be immediately obvious to foreign persons, but the Monty Python Dirty Forrk" sketch is not just inspired lunacy, but cutting satire on the English, based around our desire to not make a fuss and discomfort when other people do.

Last week in a restaurant they didn't bring a starter we had ordered. I told my non-Englsh girlfriend not to mention it, so long as they don't try to bill us. We had our main course by that stage anyway. But she insisted on getting the waitress over and straight-up telling her that she had forgotten it. Now, I assume that my (probably) non-English reader is thinking "Darn tooting right, amigos!" (or however foreigners speak), but I was trying to sink into my seat as the waitress apologised profusely on the part of the Kitchen.

Then the manager came over to apolgise profusely as well, and told us we would have the starter asap and it would be free. Then they allocated us a different waitress. Then the manager came back to apologise again. And later, again. And the new waitress apologised. I was intensely embarassed by it all. Nobody got killed, but it's the kind of thing Python were satirising in the 70s.

I went and found our original waitress before we left, to say thanks, but I might have made it worse.
mechanical contrivance said @ 4:51pm GMT on 6th Feb [Score:2]
You wouldn't download a car.
steele said @ 5:43pm GMT on 6th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
Fuck yeah i would.
cb361 said @ 5:13pm GMT on 6th Feb
Mythtyn said @ 7:45pm GMT on 6th Feb
If i could download and print a working car, absolutely would.
mechanical contrivance said @ 8:44pm GMT on 6th Feb
It's only a matter of time.
steele said @ 11:40pm GMT on 6th Feb [Score:1 Interesting]
arrowhen said @ 11:14pm GMT on 6th Feb
Of course I wouldn't download *a* car. I'd download so many cars I'd have to build a new garage to park them all in, and then I wouldn't even bother driving them because I would be too busy scouring sketchy Russian car torrent forums in search of the few obscure cars I hadn't managed to download yet.
Mythtyn said @ 11:57pm GMT on 6th Feb
Thats ok.. just print a new garage.
Taxman said @ 12:28am GMT on 7th Feb
Speed bump.

“Governments are already looking to replace lost tax revenue, and pressure will likely mount for a product’s digital blueprint to become the taxable item or for a 3D printer to create a taxable nexus.”
-Channing Flynn
Global Technology Industry Leader
Tax Services

The things you own end up owning you.
-Tyler Durden
cb361 said @ 12:38pm GMT on 7th Feb
I have bought 645 cars that I haven't played printed yet
rhesusmonkey said @ 4:47am GMT on 7th Feb
Didn't RTFA, but Tech Insights (http://www.techinsights.com/) does paid-for reverse engineering of many consumer goods including die-level teardowns of processors (they bought another company called Chipworks that has done this in the past). It can be very helpful for comparing costs.
The ifixit folks (https://www.ifixit.com/) do a reasonably good job of step-by-step repair as well, though they have got pretty focused on mobile phones recently.

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