Degree in Automotive Computer Science?
I was chatting with my friend Tom K the other day about life, liberty, and the pursuit of extracting oneself from a cubicle farm, when we stumbled across the career of auto-mechanic.
That’s right, we both can program computers, and fixing cars these days involves intricate knowledge of fancy gadgets (what geek can resist fancy gadgets?). Furthermore, it looks like salaries are comparable to high-flying silicon valley jobs. Soon, car companies will offer stock options to their ‘auto technicians,’ GM will recruit straight from the Computer Science program at Berkeley, and slashtire.org will be overloaded with postings about open-source engine management software.
Stranger things have happened.
Take this quiz to see if you want to be a car mechanic.
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I just picked up my car today from the service shop. I had to replace a sensor because the check engine light was on.
So, let me get this straight… the engine doesn\’t really have a problem, just the sensor that is supposed to find the problem? This happened on another car of mine a few years ago. What good is this system if the sensors can\’t outlast the engine?
When will we see some of the same advances in cars that we\’ve made in computer science… like redundancy, hot swapping, and error messages?! I\’m sure not going to take that car in if I get an error message: \”Sorry, I can\’t feel the engine, but if you\’re still driving, there\’s probably nothing wrong.\”