These days, cars are computer centers on wheels. Today’s vehicles can contain over 100 computers and millions of lines of ...

Another box records cockpit audio and other ... driver's side and transfers the information to a special computer program. Obviously, car manufacturers have the equipment. The NHTSA and law ...

Now the part that I like about the interface box, is in order to talk to the computer, it uses only the PIC18F4550’s USB port. one usb connection is all that the computer talks to the car with.

Computers in cars date back to the late 1960s, but what can be done with them and who can access these EDR "black boxes" is entering ... are a half-dozen separate computer systems sitting in ...

"A black box is a computer in your car, and it can be used for diagnostic purposes in newer cars — by newer, probably within the last 10 years," explained Forest Horne, a partner and attorney at ...

The car gets driven mainly on the highway ... being told that my transmission is not working correctly due to the computer box that resides in the glove compartment that controls the workings ...

Third, the computer code for black boxes should be open source ... One final point I would make about automobile black boxes: although cars are different, EDRs may still set an important precedent for ...

"Basically your car is a computer now, so it can record all kinds ... not defects in electronic throttle control systems. "Black box," a term for a device whose workings are obscure, is most ...

man, if this trend picks up, we’ll have a perfect mix of old school car hackers from the 50’s and all the computer modders out there. perhaps mtv might do a “pimp my box” show soon… ...

My feeling is that this early “computer” was an option, available only on specialty cars such as your Cutlass ... that came as part of the glove-box paraphernalia on a used 1966 Pontiac ...

Unfortunately, they're getting good at it, and it's getting easier as cars become more and more computer controlled. That's the technical side of downloading black box data, but there's a legal ...