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Except that cars contain thousands of microchips and pieces of software that run things like your radio, ABS, and other major systems in the car.
by namidark 15y ago
Except that cars contain thousands of microchips and pieces of software that run things like your radio, ABS, and other major systems in the car.
- bwarp 15y agoMy 1978 Land Rover Series III doesn't have a single computer! It's the mechanical equivalent of the GNU project.
- DanBlake 15y agoAwesome you still have that on the road. Im guessing you live in the south? Biggest difference I always notice about cali vs northeast is the amount of old cars on the road.
- bwarp 15y agoI'm in the UK!
- vacri 15y agoIn the south of the UK?
- marcusramberg 15y agoThe south of uk is the opposite of the south of the US.
- cyberroadie 15y agoI think the whole of the UK is opposite of the south of the US
- bwarp 15y agoSome of it is actually pretty close unfortunately.
- bwarp 15y agoFor the person who downvoted me, have you ever lived in Slough?
- bwarp 15y agoThe middle at the moment. There's no point in owning anything with wheels larger than shirt buttons in the south.
- beedogs 15y agoYou will always see a bevy of antiques on the road anywhere the roads aren't salted during the winter.
- rhizome 15y agoBy that token, asking RMS about cars in relation to his attitude towards computer would be akin to asking whether he lives in civilization or not, since everything from traffic lights to voting machines don't have open software at all. The category error is one of scale, not technical advancement.
- reuser 15y agoExample of a category error (stolen from Ryle): you are handed both the left glove and the right glove, and you ask where the pair is. The pair is not a separate thing from the left glove and the right glove. 'Category error' does not mean a quantitative or scale difference at all.
- rbanffy 15y agoWell... I still own (and use, once every couple weeks) a car that runs on ethanol and has an analog electronic injection. The radio is, most probably, its smartest part ;-) It can be examined and changed, but it's not as easy as recompiling its engine.