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 The same special effects technology that helped make the Spiderman and Harry Potter movies is now helping to produce the latest vehicles in less time and with lower costs.
Car manufacturers are taking advantage of the movie technology to build vehicles many times over virtually, before ever manufacturing a single part. Previously, manufacturers had to use a trial-and-error process of producing prototypes to test how and if they would work. This process was expensive and time-consuming. With the new technology, manufacturers are finding issues with any parts before producing them. Manufacturers can even crash a vehicle virtually to see how it performs. And the technology lowers costs - General Motors credits the technology with cutting product development costs by 40 percent.
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