It's not quite a jaguar. Or a snow leopard, for that matter...

Nov 01, 2009 17:37

I've been thinking recently about the whole computers in cars thing, as in the "your car has more computing power than the system that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon" quote, and I'm getting a bit curious about what that actually means.

When people say that modern cars have computers in them, how closely related are these computers to the things I work with every day? Do they have BIOSes, operating systems, network protocols, etc? Would I recognise any of the brands involved or is it an entirely different industry?

Basically, how far away am I from being able to hack a Ford Fiesta?

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