subject: The Technology In Your Auto [print this page] Cars used to be a little bit simpler in the past. With the advent of computer technology, increasingly year by year computers have infiltrated automobiles making them more complex. While computers do add a great deal of processing power, performance, and price to your vehicle, they also make it more difficult for the at home mechanic to do any work in their own vehicle. And while some people might like the idea of not being able to work in their own vehicle for others its a simple inconvenience.
Gone is the era of simple cars that you can work on yourself. In the early days of the automotive industry right up until the 1990s, cars were relatively simple affair and if you knew one you are least a little bit about all of them. However, throughout the last two decades cars had become an increasingly computerized affair. Problems they used to be solved by simply listening to your vehicle, looking for leaks, or simply feeling out what might be wrong are now solved by diagnostics test. The diagnostic testing done in your car is through a small computer then reads your cars computer to get information back on anything that might be going wrong under the hood. While this type of diagnostic testing can be a great thing and must also be noted that good diagnostic testers are fairly expensive. In the past all you really needed was a manual for your car, some tools, a lift and, you were ready to go. Nowadays its really imperative that you take your car in to be worked on as only experience mechanics with the prior proper diagnostic tools can really do work in your car.
One good thing about this turn of events in the automotive industry is that you can now improve the performance of your car with a computer chip that as easily as you use to be able to improve it mechanically. Many cars now have electronic governors that determine the performance of the car in question as it rolls out of the factory. The great thing about today is that the same computers that make it difficult to do any serious work on your car also make it easy to upgrade your performance, so its a little bit of the tradeoff but hopefully you can make it work for you. So check out of your cars hood and if you dont know what youre looking at just be sure to take it into a mechanic!
by: ITworks
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