I don't know if they are that different. I met a biker once who told how he designed his own automatic speed-control. Asked him to see it. What he showed me was

I don't know if they are that different. I met a biker once who told how he designed his own automatic speed-control. Asked him to see it. What he showed me was a lock on the gas. Seemed very dangerous to me. Also, another guy showed me a contraption he built himself for a stick car. He put a sensor on the stick and whenever the sensor detected his hand, a servo automatically pressed the clutch pedal. It also automatically slowly releases the clutch pedal when his hand was removed from the stick. These are all electronic and/or mechanical systems and a mistake on its software or mechanical design may impact the safety of the vehicle. I got negatively impressed in both cases and told them that it was probably illegal. But well, my car... I would love to be abe to have access to the code. Not that I want to check or modify it myself, but the fact the I know anyone can check. The same reason I like to use FLOSS on my own machine. Actually, for safety reasons, it makes sense for it to signed, but I wan to be able to access it. If it was in ROM, maybe I wouldn't care. If it needs a critical update, would not bother going for a recall. Actually I think forcing ROM for safety critical software would encourage developers to make it right at the first try since it would be way more expensive to fix it later; probably would make engineers design systems as simple as they possibly can. The auto clutch I saw was similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2J6uQH-khY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2J6uQH-khY