Modern vehicles have evolved from mechanical machines into complex networks of processors, sensors, and code.

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    1 day ago

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

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      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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        13 hours ago

        but I’m a safe driver so that won’t effect me

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