You probably wouldn't be able to remove it without breaking in to the module and removing some components and re-routing others.
I know on diesel trucks you can go to special garages that are legal and have your catalytic converter removed, they also hook up into the main systems and turn on or off features and for extra you can buy the interface and change stuff at will.
Hopefully it can be turned off via a route like that.
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.
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