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Dodge Will Completely Control Performance Upgrades on Its EVs
- danuker 4y agoAs a programmer, I wish I could somehow weigh the amount of software in a car. I'd buy the one with the least.
- zardo 4y agoBrammo does this as well. Selling a software 'upgrade' that runs the motor outside of it's manufacturers recommendation seems like a good way to stick your company with replacing a bunch of burned out motors. Edit: Zero, not Brammo
- Kirby64 4y agoGood luck. Although there are ways to make this very difficult for consumers to modify, it probably won't take too long til someone figures out how to bypass/hack it.
- danuker 4y agoI don't know. Firmware can be cryptographically signed. Some anti-tamper devices even burn physical fuses. A car is expensive to brick, so not a lot of people would play around with it. For instance, here's what free-software devs say about nVidia drivers: "Little hope of reclocking becoming available for GM20x and newer GPUs as firmware now needs to be signed by NVIDIA to have the necessary access." https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/