Ann McLane Kuster Quotes

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.

I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!

Obviously you can make a pretty good living these days as a crew member or a crew chief or as a driver. But the technology is expensive.

The computer systems that we have on our cars when we go test just blow my mind.

Everybody in my family who had a job worked in the auto industry or something related to it.

I have motor oil running through my veins.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

Audi has fewer problems with electronics than any other company.

Automobiles and the automotive industry are increasingly driven by data and computing. The saying 'What's under the hood' will increasingly refer to computing, not horsepower.

Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive.