Technology is booming in the motor vehicle industry at the moment with everyone trying to show off their new advancements that will change the way that cars are made, how they look, how they drive and what they do. Many of these ideas were not even imaginable a few years ago yet here we are. These are a couple of trends that will be taking over the motor industry from 2017:

3D Printing

In 2017, 3D printing will begin to appear in the motor industry in the form of basic car construction done by al the mainstream car manufacturers as well new players in the game like Local Motors. Local Motors are a low-volume manufacturer of open source vehicles. 3D printing makes it a lot more cost effective to build things which will challenge and if not displace the fundamental way in which cars are currently being made.

As it stands right now, cars are designed and built to withstand between 3 and 5 crashes and last around seven and a half years, some last much longer. 3D printing will enable motor vehicle manufacturers to build a car on a solid chassis with a body that will be designed to have one crash in its life. The body will be able to be cost effectively replaced while leaving the skeleton fully in-tact. 3D printing could even disrupt our concept of repairing a vehicle after an accident and could even render panel beaters as obsolete.

We will be able to manufacture car bodies that will possess amazing safety characteristics but only for one crash. If the vehicle is involved in an accident, a new body will be created. With 3D printing, a car can be recycled and changed throughout its life. What once was a sleek convertible can be transformed into a sedan or minivan as you go through different stages in your life.

Autonomous vehicles continue to drive the industry

2017 will portray a flurry of new autonomous features that will appear in almost every new car.

Autonomous capabilities are capabilities such as self-parking and adaptive cruise control. These capabilities will be found in virtually every vehicle in the future.

This new trend is unstoppable and while self-driving cars won’t be on the road in 2017, the direction that it will happen one day is clear. For announced that were going to be mass producing self-driving vehicles by the year 2021. Tesla motors and Google are also developing these self-driving cars.

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