You Can Still Modify Your Truck
Earlier this year GM and a few other automakers lobbied against a proposed exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The exemption would allow for the diagnosis, repair, and modification of v...
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BenK wrote:
This is SOP for the technology market sector for decades and decades...software/firmware/etc
Ditto your music and video's...from the days of vinyl to 8 track to
cassette to CD's and now DVD's...toss in streaming, but they can
control that way better
Now that memory is extremely cheap...the auto makers now have enough and compute
power to know EVERYTHING that is done to the software, computers and vehicle network
Why when a 'new' era vehicle gets into a crash...they look for the black box
and can tell how fast it was going when it crashed and a big ETC to that
Also, all of the software/firmware/etc is for your use via a license. You do NOT
own it and there are pages of fine print that protects the OEM...not you the buyer
The day is coming very soon when the IBC finds that it is now hooked
up and then asks the trailer: "who are you", "what are you", "what
is your model" (no need for specifications...all the OEMs will have
their stuff interlinked on a humogo DB on the net)...then some day
strain gauges will be involved to know the actual weights...as they
are getting cheaper all the time...issue right now is shock loads...they
are silicone chips (like the Pizo chips on injectors)
Then it will know if you are over spec or not and basis for warranty
approval or denial...
Yowsa ... but it does make perfect sense ,my truck for example can sense load and use a shifting map that is appropriate for the weight.
