The easy part was designing changes in chip layouts and getting some patents.
To design change in the interest of most citizens – and with visible achievements on all levels – is the core challenge in the Ruhr, and beyond.
Design changes in sport utility vehicles reflect a recent effort by automakers to understand how vehicles of different sizes and shapes interact in crashes.
There have been a number of design changes in the enclosures since the first engineering model was completed last year, Mr. Judson said.
A Federal Aviation Administration engineering board is expected to recommend design changes in the rudder of the Boeing 737, the world's most widely used jetliner.
But consideration should be given both to establishing mandatory safe speed limits for existing sport utility vehicles and to requiring design changes in future production.
That would pose a big concern in China, for example, where many companies rely on visits by expatriate engineers to make design changes in products assembled by large numbers of low-wage local workers.
Dr. Runge, a former emergency room physician, has already pushed the industry to work jointly on design changes in sport utilities and pickup trucks that make them less dangerous for car passengers in collisions.
