- Unknown Binding: 366 pages
- Publisher: H.W. Sams; 3rd ed edition (1988)
- ASIN: B0006EPZVY
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Picture yourself in the not-too-distant future driving your new car along a rural interstate highway on a business trip. Read the first page
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book describes itself as being " a practical text suitable for the automotive technician, student or enthusiast" unfortunately it is not, this is doubly dissapointing as it come from the Newnes stable who have a good record of producing practical texts, and after 5 editions you expect it to live up to its claims. The book is readable and should be of use to the manager or journalist who requires background information, but borrow it from the library, for a few hours read will take you through it with no real residual reference value after this. It has very little of practical value, and is pretty well worthless to the man with grease on his hands, furthermore the author is not a motor engineer and it shows, his grasp of certain areas of modern car electronics and operation is poor, and his complete ignorance of anything happening in Europe or the far east almost breathtaking, sufficient to say the Bosch name only appears in a very minor way very late in the book and is not referenced in the index at all.
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44 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Excellent treatment of engine controls
21 Jan 2004
Format:Paperback
The book title, Understanding Automotive Electronics, is an understatement. This book, in chapters 5, 6, and 7, gives one of the best explanations of modern engine control systems I have ever read. Every major concept of OBD-II vehicles is discussed in clear precise language. These chapters alone are worth the price of the book.
My favorite feature of the book is the end of chapter questions which can be used to test your understanding of the material. And in the back of the book, you can check your answers.
Be careful when buying automotive books. Many are written by good in-shop mechanics who have poor writing skills. This book is different. Mr. Ribbens not only knows his stuff but can communicate it to others as well.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Great choice for electrical engineers interested in automotive electronics
26 Nov 2006
Format:Paperback
Electronics has taken over control of the modern automobile, so much so that it is difficult to tinker with the car as we used to do in the old days, since all of the electronics is contained in embedded systems and diagnostics are usually performed by a PC. All the key functions are, or can be, controlled with electronics which has greatly benefited the driver.
There are 11 chapters and over 450 pages illustrated with diagrams, circuits and performance graphs, but very few photographs of the electronics. The chapters step the reader through fundamentals of combustion, controls, engine and motion control and diagnostics. After each chapter there is a multiple choice quiz relating to the chapter. You will have to read the text in detail to answer the questions, not speed-read. It's an interesting textbook and ideal for education in the topic. I found it to be easy to read and informative. The book shows how the electronics works to improve the safety and performance of the automobile. There is little coverage on the type of componentry, wiring or reliability of different forms of assembly, so the book is only of interest to manufacturing engineers if they want to understand the reasons behind the circuits built into automobiles. Instead there are quite a few block diagrams, equations, snippets of assembly language code, and even explanations of more elementary electronic devices and systems that will probably be most interesting to the electrical engineer who is interested in how electronics controls the modern automobile.
There are 11 chapters and over 450 pages illustrated with diagrams, circuits and performance graphs, but very few photographs of the electronics. The chapters step the reader through fundamentals of combustion, controls, engine and motion control and diagnostics. After each chapter there is a multiple choice quiz relating to the chapter. You will have to read the text in detail to answer the questions, not speed-read. It's an interesting textbook and ideal for education in the topic. I found it to be easy to read and informative. The book shows how the electronics works to improve the safety and performance of the automobile. There is little coverage on the type of componentry, wiring or reliability of different forms of assembly, so the book is only of interest to manufacturing engineers if they want to understand the reasons behind the circuits built into automobiles. Instead there are quite a few block diagrams, equations, snippets of assembly language code, and even explanations of more elementary electronic devices and systems that will probably be most interesting to the electrical engineer who is interested in how electronics controls the modern automobile.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Wish the new edition had dropped more of the old
21 Aug 2009
Format:Paperback
Good books on automotive electronics are hard to find. Must not be much of a market for them. This book, Understanding Automotive Electronics, written by a professor at the University of Michigan, is by far the best book on this topic that I have found.
Still, it leaves a lot to be desired. Published in 2003, this book is the sixth edition. Even in 2003, much of it was outdated and should have heavily edited or dropped. The discussion of global positioning systems (GPS), for example, puts their adoption in cars well into the future. But the car I bought in 2003 has a very nice GPS system. The section of the book on GPS systems was outdated even before the book went into print.
Similarly, if you want to know how Controller Area Network (CAN) buses work, you will find little here. That's one topic I hoped this book would cover. That it focuses more on technology from the 1980s and 1990s was a disappointment. A complete rewrite of the book in 2003 would have been very valuable.
But you have to take what you can get. I'll take this book. In my opinion, there's enough here to make it worth reading.
Still, it leaves a lot to be desired. Published in 2003, this book is the sixth edition. Even in 2003, much of it was outdated and should have heavily edited or dropped. The discussion of global positioning systems (GPS), for example, puts their adoption in cars well into the future. But the car I bought in 2003 has a very nice GPS system. The section of the book on GPS systems was outdated even before the book went into print.
Similarly, if you want to know how Controller Area Network (CAN) buses work, you will find little here. That's one topic I hoped this book would cover. That it focuses more on technology from the 1980s and 1990s was a disappointment. A complete rewrite of the book in 2003 would have been very valuable.
But you have to take what you can get. I'll take this book. In my opinion, there's enough here to make it worth reading.
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