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I. MartínezThe Future of the Automotive Industryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7026-4_1

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Inma Martínez1  
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London, UK
 

Mechanical engineering ignited the design concept of motorized vehicles, built for the purpose of supplanting horses and carriages. Devising different types of power unit propulsion systems, electronic engineers soon designed specific innovations that incrementally transformed vehicles into electrified systems and thereafter into computerized systems that automated many functional features of automobiles. Before vehicles were programmed to self-drive, they were digitally optimized devices.

Vehicle Electronics

Cars in the mid-twentieth century began to be more electronic than mechanical thanks ...

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