Need help on paper, computers and automobiles.

[The Fast One!]

Mods-if this belongs in OT then by all means move it.

I have to write a paper for my computer science class about automobiles and computers,
I was thinking about talking about the early cars before fuel injection, and then talk about OBD-I and OBD-II computer systems, things like ABS, and all the other computers in cars,
Then I was also going to talk about the future like cyber cars or things like GPS or night vision.

I need to find a couple of books or magazines or online references to use and to learn some things about how all of these things work and etc.

Thanks for the help guys.

[The Fast One!]

also I have to make a powerpoint presentation so if you see any good pics post them up here.
Thanks

[dude8383]

howstuffworks.com

that should be a good starting point. :D

[Rob]

man i miss easy assignments.

[The Fast One!]

yeah I already went to howstuffworks started looking at some stuff.


rob-the assignment is easy but I'm just having trouble finding resources.

[Jonathan M3]

man i miss easy assignments.

+1


I have to write a 9-10 page paper on the New Home Warranty Act for next Tues.

[Rob]

I'm writing 16 pages on traffic congestion, and i'm a polisci major, bleh.

Mike- try places like popular mechanics and popular science, as well as the howstuffworks suggestion. The topic you're suggesting is pretty vague, if you focus it a little bit (you may have, just didnt elaborate) you'll have an easier time finding sources. I know for me, an open ended assignment (broad, sweeping questions, etc) is the devil. Once I decide what direction I need to take, I have a much easier time. This usually means I end up banging out introductions 3 or 4 times and completely scraping them.

[Digitalwave]

I did almost an exactly same paper with a presentation. I basically used Google and Howstuffworks. I used pictures of cars on dynos, fuel charts, dyno charts, stuff like that. iDrive is a good thing to mention in the paper, I did in mine and my teacher owned a 745iL so he liked that little section.

[Dave]

Damn, I wish we would have had google back when I was in school.

[!RocknE30!]

howstuffworks.com

that should be a good starting point. :D

That was going to my suggestion, awesome site.

And I don't know how I'd have done a lot my homework without google, etc. It makes finding information soooo much easier and faster.

[Matt86es]

Damn, I wish we would have had google back when I was in school.

Yeah, it's awesome, but it gets some people in trouble. There was just an article in our school paper quoting a teacher who said she uses google to find plaigerizers. :)

[Digitalwave]

Yeah, it's awesome, but it gets some people in trouble. There was just an article in our school paper quoting a teacher who said she uses google to find plaigerizers. :)

Teachers aren't dumb, its easy to tell if someone is plagarizing even without the internet.

[Mot]

Teachers aren't dumb, its easy to tell if someone is plagarizing even without the internet.

Unless your german is good enough, to ask some one on a germany essay website to translate a german paper into english.

[Jand3rson]

If automobiles advanced at the rate of computers, you'd have to buy a new car everytime they repainted the lines on the road. :D