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BBT 10- Automobile Styles and Designs

Automobile Body Styles
Coupe- are often the sporty variants of saloon cars. They have doors reduced from 4 to 2, but the coupe body style varies from carmaker to carmaker, and now there are even four-door coupes like the Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class. The name ‘coupe' comes from the French verb ‘couper', which means ‘to cut'. An example of a two-door coupe is the Audi A5.                    www.netcarshow.com

  

Convertible- A convertible, or cabriolet, is a body style with a foldable or retractable roof. These cars often have canvas or vinyl roofs, but nowadays these are made of plastic, aluminium or steel. Convertibles are usually two-door cars.                                                          www.edmunds.com

Sedan- also known as a saloon and is a passenger car with a bonnet covering the engine and a separate boot for luggage at the rear. The style of this car is one of the most popular body styles of cars today.  It seats least four people. A sedan design is also known as a ‘three-box' design.                                                                                                     

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Hatchback-  is a car with a sloping back and a hinged rear door that opens upwards. These cars are different than SUVs, MPVs or vans because they are usually much more compact. They can usually have seat four-five people is almost always a tight squeeze. An example of a hatchback is the Maruti Suzuki Swift.                                                                                                            www.kbb.com

Estate- known as station wagons, have a body style almost like the Sedan. However it has an extended rear luggage or cargo area. This vehicle have a two-box design with the passenger compartment extending over where the boot would have been in a saloon. They are usually based on sedans, often share the same frontal design. Estates are not very common in India, but an example is the Skoda Octavia Combi.                                                                            www.which.co.uk











Automobile

• Takes about 3 years and they start off with the sketching phase. 
• The Design is called problem solving because they have a criteria they have to follow so that they can come up with something that is aesthetically pleasing.
• The feasibility stage is taking the sketches that they like and evolving them into something that maintains the theme. 
• Designing an automobile would not interest me because i am not goo in designing things at all. 

BBT 10- Careers and Certification in the Automotive Industry

Careers in the Automotive Industry 

1. High-tech systems unheard of 30 years ago are now standard equipment on much of the nation’s fleet of vehicles: stability and traction control systems, adaptive cruise control and variable valve timing, just to name a few.
2. Given the advance of technology and a richly varied automotive industry that offers an array of positions and career paths, the future is bright for talented young persons with math, science, communications and technical skills.
3.  High-tech careers that require four, six, or even eight years of college, automotive technology careers can begin after just two years of education. 
4. The U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts automotive repair and maintenance industry is expected to add 237,500 new jobs and have a 30 percent growth rate through 2020.
5.  And with the outsourcing of jobs picking up steam, first manufacturing jobs, now computer programming, customer call-center work, and accounting services all going overseas, it should be comforting to know that automotive service and repair is fairly immune to such moves. 
6. 4 automotive positions that people can do are: Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) conducts the only nationally recognized certification program for automotive service professionals. ASE offers a wide range of tests that serve virtually every segment of the automotive service arena.

After watching the video I think that it would be kind of interesting if your enjoyed that stuff, like for an example, guys that like to work on cars or anything with a motor. You also would have to have a good memory to, because at all times you have to know where to put what and where to plug stuff. With this job, its fun to watch people that know what to do because everything go perfect and the thing they fixed works. What I found interesting that they can remember how to wire and put together so many different things and still like to do it. It is a life long learning process because you can never know too much and you always can learn ore on what your doing. Some characteristics that a automotive technician should have are good people skills and problem solving skills!

Certification in the Automotive Industry
      NATEF- was founded in as an independent, non-profit organization the mission of theNational Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (N A T E F) is to improve the quality of automotive technician training programs nationwide at secondary and post-secondary, public and proprietary schools.  
      SGS-  manages your supply chain and provides safe and reliable vehicles. It also improves quality, efficiency and safety and reduces environmental impact.

     ASE-  National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence. As of 1972 our independent non-profit organization has worked to improve the quality of vehicle repair and service by testing and certifying automotive professionals.


Jobs in the Automotive Industry

Growing up with all guy neighbours and cousins, you get to know your way around a car, what its like and how it runs. Also have a dad that loves to work on cars, trucks and basically anything with a motor, this stuff kind of has a interest to all this stuff. But I don't think I would have ever base my job on working on motors. 

BBT 10- Emerging Technologies and Automobiles

Technologies in Development

• With technology today I think flying cars are less likely to happen, they need to fine a way for the car to be kind of like a air plane but its impossible in my defence. 
• I think the autonomous car has the biggest impact on us because its very useful for people that don't have their licences because of medical problems or people that are too young to have them also. 
•  I think the autonomous car is a part of our lives because cars are always improving and they all can do more and more things without a person having to do it for the car. 
• I think that it would keep everyone safe because the driver is aware what he or she is doing. 
• My thoughts on flying car is that I think they re not safe. You don't need a licences to fly but you need it for driving? No, that is not right! you should have to have the either way. Especially for flying in the air. 
• I think a self driving car would be awesome because for some people cant drive because of medical conditions, old people who are not able to drive and young people that are obviously too young to drive. 

Tech for Sakes of Tech

• I found it surprising that people between the ages of 21-38 didn't care about smartphones in cars because smartphones are a big part of the world today. People my age depend on their phones way too much. 
• I don't think that other technologies mention in this article the danger of driving will I their phones, phone are the biggest distractions in the world today, they cause a lot of accidents.
• Technology features are important when buying a care because people look at what the vehicle has to offer.  
• A blind spot warning would be great because then you can see in your blind spot and it would cause less accidents. 
• The drum brakes would be useless to tell a person because no one would really understand what they mean.  

BBT 10- History of The Automoible

Carl Benz

1. The automoible has been around for about 132 years. 
2. a government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
3. He use the title "moto car" to describe the auotmobile.
4. In 1888 Carl Benz wife, Berta steps in and drives the invention. 
5. Axial Pivot Steering System, when the both front wheels moved and turned at the same time, this method is still used today. 
6. 2 companies that merged before Carl Benz passed away was 'Benz & co.' and the 'Diamond Motor Company'
7. The experience that he had happen to him was that he was one of the not so many inventors that got to see their dreams come true, the breakthrough of the auotmobile. 

Henry Ford and The Model T

1. His 3 employees suggest that why not make the assembly line move instead of them moving. 
2. Henry Ford made sure that his workers were treated good and got a goo pay so they were committed and wanted to work there. 
3. The first Model T Ford was cost a little over a thousand dollars and was the common man. 
4. The Model T Ford price dropped to $800 then after he made over a hundred thousand more cars, the price dropped to $300. The auotomobile costed a little over $365, and today that would be $7000. 
5. When the Model T was finally sold it offered people the pleasure of travelling without relying on the thought of Rail Roads, the car was our ticket to personal freedom. 

The Ford Edsel

• The name came from his son Edsel, he had great taste and was apparently one of the most beautiful cars of all time. 
• The grill on the car was a one-of-a-kind grill, known as the toilet seat grill. 
• Only after 3 years of its invention, they pulled the car from the line up. 

The Rise Of Henry Ford

• In the 1840's, Henry Ford was a man that was approaching middle age, he was the type of man with  restless personality.
• He wanted to create a 'Horseless Buggy' because he hated horses.
• He read articles and tried to kind of create his own version of the car.
• Many of their companies crashed until they came up with the Ford Motor Company. 

Automobile Timeline

• 1902- The standard drum brakes were invented, the bakes worked by using a cam to force apart to cam shoes 
• 1911- The first electric start was introduced, before these the cars had to be hand cranked. 
• 1935- The flashing turn signals were introduced.
• 1966- Electronic fuel injection system developed.

BBT 10- PSA

 Our awareness video adressed the issue of illegal downloads. Our target audiene was teens because downloading illegally is a very big problem within youth today. Teens download music, movies, games, TV shows, etc. illegally all the time, sometimes without even realizing. We chose our footage because they are all of technology, which makes the viewer think about what the video is saying. Our message discusses the consequences of what can happen when downloading illegally. I think it will be effective because it will make our audience think of what can happen if they illegally download something, and how serious it really is. Hugo and Daniel decided on the footage that we used for the video. Olivia did the voice recording that tells the message, and Laura put the footage together to create the video.