Yeah it's all software, I'd say 95%. After a couple years there is always reverse engineered work arounds. And a market for them.
Edit: half the time you need to buy a programmable PCM though. So I guess that's more than 5%. But that's the limitations, the software, and being able to rewrite it. Read only vs rewriteable. Factory PCM's you typically have one shot at it or it's bricked. Somehow I dunno, I'm not a programmer.
As the outrage grows when people’s cars shut off randomly it will either be removed or a market will develop to disable it.
My last car had an ignition recall and until you could get in you were only supposed to use the key with nothing else attached.
That thing shut off so many times before the recall it scared me but they could never find the problem(sure), they just weren’t forced to release the dangerous problem yet.
Luckily it only happened when I was close to a driveway or parking lot, a few times it was right before a turn on a flashing yellow and could’ve killed me but I pulled into a shop and restarted.
There is a very good reason why farmers are getting into the hacking scene. All that bullshit with John Deere and right to repair.
Edit: I'll just say that I've hooked a laptop up to a car and some dude named Ivan in Ukraine made it work over the internet.
It’s crazy cars can be fixed remotely.
I wish someone would put a car out without all the extra shit, still be nice but without all the fancy shit and easy to fix without having to take it in for every tiny thing and repair it yourself.
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