Simple Tech: Electronics in an automobile explained - Part one

Can humans today live without electronics? It isn’t a hard question to answer, right? If this question arrived as a notification on your smartphone, you’d immediately want to unlock the device and look at it. Suffice it to say that we are surrounded by electronics and life without them would be tough.

This is true for cars and motorcycles as well, though it is a lot less obvious. At a most superficial level, you can see the electronics that automate the stuff you do most often. For instance, controlling air conditioning or the music...