Automotive Diagnostics Quotes

I don't know one end of a car from another.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.

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 have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

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'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.

They could find something wrong with every car if they took it apart for a whole day at the R&D center.

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