Future Car Culture

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History of Car Culture
Ten years ago car enthusiasts primarily shared their modifications and repairs tips through car clubs and word of mouth. Enthusiasts and handy men would go to car clubs or simply discuss car repairs while watching the Sunday football game. Many tips and tricks would be passed down from mechanic to customer or from weekend racer to weekend racer. On the industry side, technological innovation and collaboration between various car and aftermarket companies primarily existed through face to face engineering meetings, between two major car brands (such as the collaboration between BMW and McLaren to create the McLaren F1).

Modern Car Culture:

Today, the web has supplanted many of these face to face interactions, especially with the proliferation of internet forums. Forums such automotiveforums.com, carforums.net, or even yahoo answers have allowed people to ask and discuss questions about car modifications and repair. There now exists a plethora of DIY knowledge on the internet open to search via Google for every vehicle in existence, from guides to replace the air filter to aftermarket turbocharger installations. The creation of Youtube has also increased the accessibility of DIY guides, allowing people all over to share their tricks and tips. This dramatic increase in the accessibility of such discussions and knowledge has also led to new homemade innovations (such as retrofitting a car to full-electric). In the industrial world, the internet has allowed engineers to more easily meet and discuss new ideas via internet video chat as well as share complicated computer simulations and models to each other with the increasing bandwidth of the internet. Furthermore, scholars from different fields such as materials scientists at universities are able to collaborate more easily with car companies.