Computer modeling allows today's auto engineers to precisely design vehicles, engines and transmissions, down to the smallest detail, for maximum strength without having to repeatedly build and test actual components over and over along the way, said Quinnell.
At the moment, it is not clear whether the rhetoric is really a negotiating ploy, in which the administration blusters in order to build credibility and extract maximum concessions when the time comes to negotiate, or whether it wants to change international relations in some fundamental way.