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by nostrademons 1470 days ago
Just looking through the table of contents [1] - this is not just for cars. It's basically a textbook on mechanical engineering, applied to something that will be common and very scavengable in a post-apocalyptic world. The first 159 pages is basically a quick-reference for applied physics; the next 50 pages is mathematics; the next 100 pages is material science. They don't get to anything car-specific until page 460.

[1] https://www.sae.org/images/books/toc_pdfs/BOSCH10.pdf

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Thank you for the link; yes, I laughed when I first paged across the book's reiteration of physical constants, the laws of thermo-dynamics etc. but in retrospect, it's helpful to have even elementary references when learning new concepts.
Why was this published? Bosch does not even make cars
Indeed, they only produce more car parts than any other company on this planet.
Bosch is a very large supplier for a huge amount of stuff in cars. Radars, other sensors, lights, ecu, brakes, hydraulics, gaskets, sealants, the lot.