Modern vehicles have evolved from mechanical machines into complex networks of processors, sensors, and code.
There Are 100 Computers Hiding in Your Car Right Now (You’re Riding a
Data Centermobile surveillance and anti-privacy device on Wheels)I figured there was a lot of data tracking because it’s not uncommon for my infotainment center to crash my Apple CarPlay connection when a message pops up saying my truck is sending data to Ford. Like damn, chill out Ford. Let me live a little.
I didn’t read the article but these days a turn signa,for instance, doesn’t just connect to a flasher and a bulb. It connects to the network in the car and requests that the computer initiate the turn signal. This means the turn signal switch itself has to have a chip in it to communicate with the network that I believe they are calling a sort of computer. Virtually every component in the car operates like this. It really isn’t the same thing as 100 computers…
We have a 1999 model car. I know it inside and out and there are nowhere near 100 computers in it.
My daily driver is a bicycle, checkmate.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go pair my bike with my phone so I can upgrade the derailleur’s firmware…
shrugs in mechanical
Not this ship, sister.
there are 100 computers hiding in your car right now
Wow! I have a car?
I am as surprised as you are.
You’re riding a data center on wheels
Oh yeah? Where’s my tax break then? And my subsidized water usage?
I mean, strictly speaking yes, but that’s like saying your quartz watch is a computer.
It’s fucking wild how quickly the media work to water down the impact of things that make Western governments a lot of quick money. Like overusing ‘genocide’ to stop people talking about the annihilation of Palestine, they’re using articles worded like this to distract from the actual data centres.
Cars have been like this for three decades. The problem is that some of those computers do data collection & upload.
All I need is a baseline open hardware EV. Fat chance, of course. So I guess I have to buy something used, today older than 8 years and counting.
Not quite open hardware, but it’s minimal compute - https://www.slate.auto/
I tried so hard to hold on for the chance to purchase one but my old car began to reek of moist unwashed towels thanks to all the rain. Ended up getting a sweet deal on a '22 Bolt with 13k miles for $15k. There’s a way to reversibly terminate the data line with $15 worth of equipment and 10 minutes.
I have my prrorder but without a price still I am still unsure if I will get one.
Interesting, thanks.
No it doesn’t. The only computer in there is the aftermarket head unit, and even that is over a decade old.
Pretty sure that my 2004 rav4 that just lost a muffler on the highway does not house a data center, it still has a tape deck…
Headlines are clearly not written for lemmy users lmao.
This is promising career news for data center techs like me.
Nope. We bought a pretty dumb car. Sadly only the “entry-models” have no shit in them. At least no cloud-shit. Android-auto to not be bound to abysmal onboard-systems that require subscriptions. And that’s it.
I love tech from the depth of my heart. But in a car I want haptic buttons and dials and no 2m long touchscreens where I can only turn on the AC when I have reception 😁
Your car probably has an electronics module (ECM) and a power train module (PCM) at the very least. But there’s very few cars built in the last 3 decades that don’t have at least two computers in them of some kind.
Obviously that’s not a “data center on wheels” but I hope this headline is hyperbole.
Yeah of course our car does not run on love and solar energy :) I totally don’t worry about some tech, i worry about connected cars. Which only unavoidably leads to subscriptions for everything and tons of privacy problems.
