Michael Waltrip Quotes

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

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

Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

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

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.

But, I think I first got into cars because of an electric car - it was the Tesla. And then, just the fact that they are such high-tech products. There's automated driving. There's battery technology, all the other stuff that goes into it.

Components are important in the evolution of cars, and there is increasing need for electronics.

I don't even know how people drove, back in the day, without a rear view camera.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

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

Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.

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

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 think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

Formula 1 has to be more and more also a laboratory, a centre of advanced research for innovative technologies for tomorrow's cars. The KERS is very important in this context, and Ferrari as a manufacturer had, and has, extraordinary support in Formula 1.

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.

I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles.

In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Audi has fewer problems with electronics than any other company.

The bigness and the economic “power” of the railroad companies did not impede the emergence of the motor car and the airplane.

The HMI (human-machine interface) function inside a Ferrari is probably the weakest link in the chain of technical know-how that's embodied in the car.

A lot of our work at Intel was on the automotive side: in the head unit, engine, and brake controllers.

The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.