Introduction to Vehicle Technology and Origins of Digital Computing

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Digital Computing in Mechanization:
Vehicle Technology
Since mechanization took stand, technology in the use of machines has evolved tremendously. However, we cannot forget computers; they have contributed greatly to the success of this evolution. The early mechanical calculator and clock are examples of how far technology has come from. However, it is only part of the world experiencing these recursive changes; the same changes could not exist without history having informed the future. Most of the changes are dependent on how much the computers have changed. Vehicles have changed over time from starter crank to key ignition, air conditioning technology, GPS systems in vehicles. Just as “Mechanization Takes Command” by Sigfried Giedion explains, the recent technologies are taking human part and making human beings' lives better. This paper focuses on the proposed reading list, vehicle technology, and digital computing literature.
Introduction to Vehicle Technology and Origins of Digital Computing
Vehicle technology is anonymous since, it is hard to relate the old chariots with the recent engine system. Unlike computers, which seems to have had an informed history. We find most of the evolution as dependent on the early concepts and theories, an example is the Alan Turing’s theory on the processing power and ability of computers. The first vehicle built in 1886 had a starter crank handle. 1922 became another milestone considering vehicle technology evolution with the electronic ignition replacing the starter crank (Wright, 2020). 1949 marked another milestone when Chrysler introduced a key in the ignition. All this was an evolution in the vehicle ignition system. There have been more efforts put in the other sections of the vehicle technology like automation of most of the manual processes in a vehicle like the transmission becoming automatic from a manual selection of gears to vehicles becoming autonomous, called the auto-piloting to car entertainment inform of radios which were introduced in 1930.
Digital computing is the ability of digital devices to process information based on a discrete set of instructions initially written and stored in its memory (Atanasoff, 1984, 231). Computers have contributed greatly to the development process of the digital vehicle. The systems such as the one introduced to the Cadillac Eldorado connected computers known as networking. These devices consist of software given instructions, known as codes, to fulfill a certain action task. For networking, computing had to be involved (Wright, 2020). Vehicle technology is among the most evolved technologies, and hence it consists of more literature than any other theories, not forgetting how much computers have evolved.
The literature of the era that predated the Alan Turing Machine helps in the comprehension of Alan's contribution to the digital computing era. He described a digital computing machine as a machine consisting of a limitless memory and a scanner that moves back and forth, reading each symbol and writing more symbols (Doron, 2013, 39). The actions of the computer would be driven by a set of instructions stored in memory and the form of symbols. He also said tha...