Bosch Automotive Handbook
by Robert Bosch GmbH · first published 2019
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Also, for an overview of all sorts of automotive engineering for the curious, I highly recommend the Bosch Automotive Handbook [1]. 1: http://www.amazon.com/Bosch-Automotive-Handbook-Robert-GmbH/...
on “Tesla Model S Suspension Walkaround” ↗The Bosch Automotive Handbook, now in its tenth English-language edition, is the standard one-volume reference. Older, but still useful, are Garrett et al., The Motor Vehicle, and U.S. Army TM 9-8000, Principles of Automotive Vehicles.…
on “Ask HN: What books would you recommend for learning about cars?” ↗If I were to take one book with me "down into the bunker," as Dartnell puts it, I'd hands-down take with me the Bosch Automotive Handbook[0], a phenomenally dense and thorough text covering not just cars, but their constituent parts--and their constituent parts' constituent parts--all the way down to the materials. It has wonderful tables…
on “Getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world” ↗…need to be interested in cars and how the different parts work. Knowledge of electrical engineering and control theory is also valuable. There is a good book about it if you wat to learn how cars works: Bosch Automotive Handbook. If you go that path, bear in mind that you will not be involved in creating clever algorithm. When safety is involved, you need to program very simple and easy code. The complexity lies in how all the…
on “Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?” ↗Similarly, I purchased a copy of "Bosch Automotive Handbook" [1]. For $65 it will literally walk you through every component of a vehicle, from the metals required, the fuel, to the electronics. It's presence on my bookshelf is meant to be aspirational. https://www.sae.org/publications/books/content/bosch10/
on “I bought an encyclopedia” ↗