It's All Happening In The Tube
Modern transportation boils down to bits and bytes
Computers can now simulate virtually every aspect of vehicle design, development, and production. Programs such as Alias allow stylists to evaluate many styling concepts, spinning them in virtual courtyards or driving them down winding lanes with light and scenery reflecting off their surfaces before any clay is modeled. Computers predict crash performance with amazing accuracy. Countless different programs are used to model and analyze every minute detail of an operating engine, right down to things like the size and motion of airborne oil droplets to help design oil separator baffles in a PCV valve. Once an engine is designed, programs like Magmasoft predict the flow of molten metal into the casting molds.
Other programs ensure that service parts can be removed and replaced without yanking the motor. Similar electronic aids are employed in the design of every subsystem, and when it comes to putting them all together, the factory is even designed in the tube to optimize the order and efficiency of the zillions of assembly operations required to build a car. Even the train and truck rides from the factory to your dealer are simulated to ensure against fatigue damage of the tie-down points, engine-mounts, etc.
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