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...ensure that they are baked at the right temperature, then automatically test their quality, setting up electronic protests if it has been disobeyed. A General Electric computer is scheduling the timing of each stage in the construction of a 34-story Manhattan apartment house, and in Detroit computers tell automen how to make their cars ride more smoothly by calculating the strain requirements of springs and shock absorbers...
...lingering doubt about the value of this stimulus disappeared last week, as Detroit added up sales figures for the first quarter. The industry is now selling cars at an annual rate of 7,500,000-a bit above the alltime high set in 1955, the year that automen still speak of in awed tones. The basic reason for the car-buying surge is that the U.S. consumer, who loves a bargain, is getting a lot of car for his money. Even discounting Detroit's usual enthusiasm, the '63 models are better than those of any previous year...
What irritates Japanese automen is that Toyo Kogyo owes its success to a tiny and unconventional vehicle: a three-wheeled truck that is easy to operate over Japan's narrow roads, easy to park on its crowded streets, and so simple to drive that only a motorcycle operator's license is needed...
...Other automen argue that part of the explanation lies in the fact that the young people born during the wartime baby boom are now buying used cars. This increase in demand has driven used-car prices so close to new-car prices that many people decide to spend the little bit extra it takes...
Readymade Giants. All European automen agree that competition has just begun. Some time before 1970, when all tariffs between Common Market members will finally disappear, the car population of Europe is expected to stabilize at about one car for every six people...