Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Magna and French auto industry issue red alert; warn dangers of Gigacasting" video.

  1. Do you have any citations for that since they're "loud"? Sounds more like unions howling about reduced labor. Castings can be welded (properly) and modern collision repair has found ways to join materials like (NHTSA tested) adhesives which are also used in new vehicle construction.
    2
  2. Technical details of the arguments for and against would be nice, May we have a TLDR in the next video? Not everyone viewing this is tech-illiterate. BTW noneof this is a consumer problem so it should not be "cast" as such. If a company considers a process not cost-effective they're perfectly free not to use it. None of this should be a concern to anyone outside the industry. Large complex castings either meet specifications or not and those which don't either get rework or scrapped and the metal reused. Casting tech is not static. It continuously improves. Cars with or without it are easily "totaled" (even old simple vehicles, I've spun wrenches since the 1970s) and modern auto salvage (see videos) efficiently removes usable components. That's been the case since the first automobiles. As a lifelong mechanic I would not want any severely hit new vehicle back so easier totals are something of a stealth consumer bonus. Conventional welded unibodies crumple when hit to absorb impact and are also declared beyond economic return to pre-crash quality. If things don't work out other makers using other processes will serve the public. That's a stockholder issue.
    1