Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Hack your car: BBC NEWS | Technology | Clever cars taking to the road
Who'd have thought it? Cars might be all about software rather than hardware. This latest idea is to fit every car with a standard engine, with the performance then being determined by what grade of software you have installed. Higher performance software comes at a higher cost. No mention here of the fact that this kind of thing has been going on for years, with people replacing the chips that hold the engine management system's look-up tables for speed, engine timing, fuel consumption etc, with sportier options that forsake efficiency for pulling power. These chips are generally not manufacturer standard and I'm fairly sure that if a car is released that can be upgraded through software then it won't be the manufacturer's upgrades that get installed.
Who'd have thought it? Cars might be all about software rather than hardware. This latest idea is to fit every car with a standard engine, with the performance then being determined by what grade of software you have installed. Higher performance software comes at a higher cost. No mention here of the fact that this kind of thing has been going on for years, with people replacing the chips that hold the engine management system's look-up tables for speed, engine timing, fuel consumption etc, with sportier options that forsake efficiency for pulling power. These chips are generally not manufacturer standard and I'm fairly sure that if a car is released that can be upgraded through software then it won't be the manufacturer's upgrades that get installed.
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