Posted on 04/19/2013 12:53:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Yup, I hear you. I’m either going to have to get my a** to Mars, or to Barrett-Jackson/Mecum, which I’ve always wanted to do anyhoo. I have a feeling I’d better do it soon, though, before blackbox-driven demand drives the price of restored autos through the roof, ‘cause everyone who is incapable of restoring a car himself is going to have the same idea!
Yup, with all this talk of EMP lately, I don’t want a car with any computers, chips, solid state devices, black boxes, etc., anyhow! I’d even be quite willing to go back to the 50s. Loved those cars anyway.
Right now it just records diagnostic data for mechanics to jack into with their scan tool.
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I have heard of cases where say a Tractor Trailer with the ‘black box’ being ‘observed’ going over the speed limit a few miles/hours etc up the road and getting in a accident ‘NOT his fault’ and the defense claiming that proof of him speeding puts HIM at fault because if he hadn’t been speeding, he wouldn’t have been there at the precise time.
Probably ‘somewhat’ hokum BUT it surely wouldn’t surprise me.
First, they are NOT safety devices. They won’t do a ting to prevent an accident. They are being pushed by insurance companies so they can use the data in their lawsuits and the police so they can know who to ticket. Nothing more.
You disable them - your car No Go.
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You have small imagination ,,, what if you modify it to use only 1k of memory instead of a few GB or write to a volatile memory location instead of non-volatile and leave the programs function alone ... I will get in on this myself...
Can’t you guys spell “solid sate memory”????????
Sold at you local 7-eleven as “Flash Memory Stick”, or some such. 16GBytes at least is now dirt cheap, and you can BANK on (much) bigger ones coming tomorrow ..............
Awfully nice of them, getting on board.
...after 96% OF NEW CARS ALREADY HAVE THEM!!!!
Flo, the insurance gal, is already using these devices under disguise of lowering your insurance rates.
Slow boiling the Progressive frogs.
I'd imagine the write interface is tamper-proof, so there's not much chance of being able to wipe the memory. But since the engine management module is feeding data into that memory constantly, there has to be some kind of interface you could tap into. And if you knew the microcode, you could erase the entire contents.
Or just enough of it to make the rest unreliable.
Flo knows.....
True, but who wants an immobile $40,000 Lexus in their driveway as a landscape sculpture?
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