Six autotechnieken that we today take for granted
Posted on 15-07-2014 at 19:04 by MauritsH – 39 Comments”
Driving is in the course of the years, less and less strenuous to become, not in the last place thanks to new techniques that different tasks take. What gizmos we look nowadays hardly still on, while they secretly quite important?
1. The starter motor
Although it is very entertaining to old movies to see where someone’s car with the hand is trying to revive, you must not think that you are every morning in that fashion in the sweat to work. Fortunately, it is now a matter of key turning, button pressing and you’re done.
2. Power steering
Bit soon a alley of times in an older car delivers you in worst case, immediately a dose of muscle aches. Power steering makes here to an end. Purists will yearn to go back to the ‘feel’ of a onbekrachtigde car, but that does not mean that a new car in 2014 is equipped with power steering. Basta.
3. Electronic fuel injected engines may
Yes yes, again, purists may have to go to prance, because what was more beautiful than the oldies carburetor where you spent hours and hours could pielen for it was perfectly adjusted? An engine that does not suffer from cold starts, less fuel consumption, and generally more powerful, of course!
4. Galvanized steel
Porsche started in the ’70s and since then, include jokes like “he’s rust all in the folder” fortunately a thing of the past. Who is quite sure of his case would have been, of course, can also look for models with a body that is (in part) of carbon are created, a BMW i8 for example.
5. Traction control
For those with a less velvet foot or during slippery conditions. In the beginning only applied to expensive and fast cars so that retirees there quietly along the boulevard were cruising, even today, to find the Skoda Superb.
6. ABS
The nowadays widely well-known anti-lock braking system ensures that a car at any stop as hard as possible to inhibit and also remains controllable. The latter, especially, is a huge contribution to the (active) safety of cars.
Which techniques are what you is absolutely?