Automotive category: 1940 books
Autonomous Driving
How the Driverless Revolution will Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
This book looks at the latest advances in autonomous driving, demonstrating that a future once considered science fiction is now close at hand.
Acceptance of driverless cars relies on more than just the technology that delivers it; in this book the authors consider the shift in attitudes...
No One at the Wheel
Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe.
Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than...
Car Wars
The Rise, the Fall, and the Resurgence of the Electric Car
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The resurgence of the electric car in modern life is a tale of adventurers, men and women who bucked the complete dominance of the fossil fueled car to seek something cleaner, simpler and cheaper. Award-winning former Wall Sreet Journal reporter John Fialka documents the early days of the electric...
Persian Dreams: Book III Nosha
Persian Dreams Book three, Nosha, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Strong and ambitious, the daughter of Baback won't accept the second-class citizenship that her country has traditionally forced upon females.
by Brian Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Written in British English, Who Invented the Motor Car? looks back at the history of the car—a machine that we could not imagine living without today.
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Don't be satisfied with just watching your child play with cars. Encourage him/her to understand those little engines better through this picture book. Here, we will be detailing even the tiniest parts of the car engine and how each part works with the rest. This will surely be an exciting book to read. Go ahead and grab a copy now.
Are You For Wheel? The Most Amazing Cars Ever
The Most Amazing Cars Ever
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A funny and fascinating journey through more than 200 years of motoring, highlighting the oddest, craziest, and most interesting cars ever built.
The fastest, the sleekest, the most famous and the strangest! This fascinating high-speed look at more than 200 years of motoring will have you marvelling...
by Nikolai Gogol, H.P Lovecraft, Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In a Grove [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa] Flower Fables [Louisa May Alcott] Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks [Horatio Alger, Jr.] The Thames Valley Catastrophe [Grant Allen] The Girl of the Golden West [David Belasco] The Professor [Charlotte Brontë] The Head of the House of...
by Jeremy Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Jeremy Clarkson is once more Driven to Distraction.
Brace yourself. Clarkson's back.
And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most awe-inspiring, earth-shatteringly fast and jaw-droppingly cool cars in the world (oh, and a few irredeemable disasters...).
Or he...
Auto Biography
A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy—a car that has already passed through twelve pairs of hands before his—while financial ruin, government...
Racing Engine Builder's HandbookHP1492
How to Build Winning Drag, Circle Track, Marine and Road RacingEngines
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
This is a complete guide to building racing engines, focusing on tips and techniques that will help an engine builder build a motor for any application: drag racing, circle track, road racing, or boats.
by Tom Vanderbilt
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Washington Post • The Cleveland Plain-Dealer • Rocky Mountain News
In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us...
Engine Airflow HP1537
A Practical Guide to Airflow Theory, Parts Testing, Flow Bench Testing and Analy zing Data to Increase Performance for Any Street or Racing Engine
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
This informative, fully illustrated handbook includes basic discussion on the science of engine airflow and relationships, how flowbenches work, testing individual engine components, how to analyze the data, calibration issues, intake and exhaust tuning, engine formulas, and putting it all together for maximum performance.
Performance Fuel Injection Systems HP1557
How to Design, Build, Modify, and Tune EFI and ECU Systems.Covers Components, Se nsors, Fuel and Ignition Requirements, Tuning the Stock ECU, Piggyback and Stan
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
A practical guide to modifying and tuning modern electronic fuel injection (EFI) systems, including engine control units (ECUs). The book starts out with plenty of foundational topics on wiring, fuel systems, sensors, different types of ignition systems, and other topics to help ensure the reader...