David Lesher wibbled on Thursday 04 February 2010 01:23
That is so obvious to anyone I wonder how these companies manage to miss it?
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Because years ago it was like Barbie math -- "Hard..." Now it should be trivial ongoing. I'm trying to decide how difficult (i.e. expensive) it would be to retrofit.
Assuming the ECU knows about brake applications [and I can not imagine it does not...], I'd SWAG a PROM swap would be all that was needed to deploy such. I'd *THINK* that all ECU's have socketed chips; don't I keep reading about aftermarket kits for such?
I'd assume that at some point the NHTSA requires same on a car that can overpower its own brakes. But I bet the manufacturers' lawyesr do so before then.....
Now, we can talk about the issue of the computer going insane; how can assure that a brake application won't get overlooked/ignore? THAT is harder to guarantee.
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Who else caught the "barrow" spell checker glitch?
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