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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

When the Bloodhound Super-Sonic Car is unveiled this week, the public will be able to see the many innovative technologies [bbc.com] used in its construction.

Several surface panels will be removed so that people can look inside to get a sense of the engineering required to make a car move faster than 1,000mph.

Given the bespoke nature of Bloodhound, a significant number of its components have been fabricated using 3D printing techniques.

This includes even the steering wheel.

With over 3,500 custom-made parts, it would have been prohibitively expensive, and wasteful, for the Bloodhound project to use traditional batch production approaches in many instances.

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