The future of the automobile – doomed!
 

I work in an engineering office that employs about 75 professional engineers. A good 50% of Asian descent. Every once in a while, I bring my magazine collection to work to share with my coworkers. The collection includes a varied array of titles that includes; Excellence, Road and Track, Car and Driver, Collector Car, plus an array of photography magazines.

Within 24-hours all the photo magazines were scooped-up. And the car mags, not a single one was touched.

I can't believe my office doesn’t employ a single car enthusiast.

Trog, are you sure you're working with engineers? It sounds like you work with a bunch of hair dressers. ;)

How many Boxsters in the parking lot??

:)

...or Audi TTs?

Probably a lot of bicycles in the parking lot? Not a cheap place to live your Vancouver...:eek::eek:

Few of the engineers I worked with at GM were car enthusiasts. When I was a rocket scientist there were engineers in the lab who could not change a tire. One guy came to me to ask about a sound his car was making. From his description it sounded like a bad wheel bearing or a loose wheel. Walking up to the car I could see from 10 feet away that the lug nuts were loose on one front wheel.
Then there was the guy who was having trouble starting he early Honda Civic. I told him how to check for spark - check. Then I told him to pour a little gas in the carburetor to see if it would fire. He dumped a whole quart of gasoline down the carburetor.

The thing is most of the engineers I work for, especially the younger ones, have no mechanical interest outside of work, let alone interest in cars.

I was racing go karts with my kid some years ago, building my own engines. At one setting at work I told them about building a flow bench and dyno in my basement , they were dumbfounded that someone would be doing that at home.

Sad really.

I'm interested in engineering because I like to get my hands dirty and see how things work. That's a lot different than someone good at math getting into engineering. Most engineers I met in school were the math/science kids.

Me too. I left the rocket science biz when they promoted me out of the lab and into an office.

There's a lot of people who aren't mechanically inclined.
I can remember an episode in high school (late 60's for me). I was in a buddy's car and he was going to run it through the 1/4 mile on a country road. He's getting ready to start and pulls out the manual choke knob (I was 15 before I knew there was such a thing as an automatic choke). I said why did you do that. He said because it makes the engine run faster. I didn't pursue the subject with him.
Jim

To be fair, it does make the engine run faster... but makes the car slower... haha

Sounds more like the planning dept. of the city of Portland, Oregon. I doubt you could find more hatred of the automobile anywhere.

EE's?

EEE's?

EEEEEEEE's?

Hey, there aren't too many cities that own their own racetrack within a 15-minute drive from downtown.

You clearly have not visited Boulder lately

Domed...


KT

Domed?

It's a hairdresser term, I think.

Or, Portland, Oregon, for that matter....

..these "photography magazines" are published by Larry Flint?