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There Are 100 Computers Hiding in Your Car Right Now (You’re Riding a Data Center on Wheels) (www.carsandhorsepower.com)
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Modern vehicles have evolved from mechanical machines into complex networks of processors, sensors, and code.

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[–] 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Sure, if you consider every tiny microcontroller to be a computer, it's probably more than 100.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Right? This article is kinda a ridiculous take. A musical greeting card has a computer in it.

    Cars are going to have tons of computers in them, from engine to battery management systems to driver displays to the audio system.

    The computers that should be of concern are the “black box” and telemetry, one can brick your car with an OTA update and the other is uploaded to data aggregators, bought by your insurance company, and used to raise your rates if they see driving their metrics say make you a risk.

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