Comments on: Automaker Antics http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/2009/05/14/automaker-antics/ Chrysler, car, and other discussions by Allpar contributors Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:57:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bob Taylor http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/2009/05/14/automaker-antics/comment-page-1/#comment-77556 Bob Taylor Thu, 28 May 2009 01:08:54 +0000 http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/2009/05/14/automaker-antics/#comment-77556 Current design avionics and RADAR systems, Space launch technologies, biotech industry data and procedures, high end material science, supercritical wing design and the high level software and databases required to design them, microwave MMIC design, "throttleable" rocket engines, hypersonic aircraft design along with a few working articles, fifth (sixth?) generation nuclear reactor technology, freedom to tinker. They may be able to steal this stuff but an open society is required to invent, improve and produce this with any efficiency. We didn't even invent all of this but the current generations of each are best made right here. Silicon Valley, Houston, Boston corridor, the 270 (VA, MD, DC) corridor, Oxford & CERN are not about to be replicated in China. It is not a lack of data, hardware or time but attitude. I think we not only have plenty to offer each other and the world but that us (the US Canada and Europe) doing so is inevitable. They may yet get the technology to replicate the Green cars the government is after and then they may have to pay hefty royalties and patent fees to do so. Current design avionics and RADAR systems, Space launch technologies, biotech industry data and procedures, high end material science, supercritical wing design and the high level software and databases required to design them, microwave MMIC design, “throttleable” rocket engines, hypersonic aircraft design along with a few working articles, fifth (sixth?) generation nuclear reactor technology, freedom to tinker.

They may be able to steal this stuff but an open society is required to invent, improve and produce this with any efficiency. We didn’t even invent all of this but the current generations of each are best made right here. Silicon Valley, Houston, Boston corridor, the 270 (VA, MD, DC) corridor, Oxford & CERN are not about to be replicated in China. It is not a lack of data, hardware or time but attitude. I think we not only have plenty to offer each other and the world but that us (the US Canada and Europe) doing so is inevitable. They may yet get the technology to replicate the Green cars the government is after and then they may have to pay hefty royalties and patent fees to do so.

]]> By: DaveAdmin http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/2009/05/14/automaker-antics/comment-page-1/#comment-77552 DaveAdmin Wed, 27 May 2009 12:22:01 +0000 http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/2009/05/14/automaker-antics/#comment-77552 The problem is that we will have them building the new green technologies, too. What does the United States currently produce that is not shared with China, other than, perhaps, the most high-end computers? The problem is that we will have them building the new green technologies, too. What does the United States currently produce that is not shared with China, other than, perhaps, the most high-end computers?

]]> By: Bob Taylor http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/2009/05/14/automaker-antics/comment-page-1/#comment-77550 Bob Taylor Wed, 27 May 2009 01:48:01 +0000 http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/2009/05/14/automaker-antics/#comment-77550 Dave, The only thing they have is the IP of companies doing business with them. They have enough to succeed on their own without us but there are a lot of technologies we have that they can not replicate. I'm willing to bet (even though I have no choice in the matter) that the technologies being pushed by the green crowd will even the playing field against them. There are a lot more things than that. Electronics manufacturing is a lot more than cheap PCs, CD players and TV sets. Dave,
The only thing they have is the IP of companies doing business with them. They have enough to succeed on their own without us but there are a lot of technologies we have that they can not replicate. I’m willing to bet (even though I have no choice in the matter) that the technologies being pushed by the green crowd will even the playing field against them. There are a lot more things than that. Electronics manufacturing is a lot more than cheap PCs, CD players and TV sets.

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