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A comment on China’s Huge 3D Printers, Soon Able to Print Automobile-Sized Metal Objects. Parent comment

Re:China’s Huge 3D Printers, Soon Able to Print Automobile-S... by mitochondrion on Friday February 07, 2014 @11:50PM (#7200312)
What's preventing all of those electronics from becoming dumb terminals and abstracting everything away to the central processing unit?
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Re:China’s Huge 3D Printers, Soon Able to Print Automobile-S... by stretchwithme on Saturday February 08, 2014 @12:09AM (#7200348)
Distributed intelligence is more robust. And the electronics need to be fast for your airbag and ABS.
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