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If you want to define a computer that broadly, then what exactly are modern cars but computers with engines/motors and wheels? Hell, some new cars are literall
by mynameisvlad 3y ago
If you want to define a computer that broadly, then what exactly are modern cars but computers with engines/motors and wheels?
Hell, some new cars are literally driven by a computer, both in the AI sense and in that your steering wheel movements are not directly connected to your front wheels. An EPU for a long time has controlled how an engine runs, which is a literal computer. New cars’ components are connected with automotive-grade Ethernet. They use a screen to interface with “apps” like media playback and navigation. They connect to external services and devices like your phone.
What, exactly, makes it not a computer, if we’re defining the term loosely enough to encompass practically all devices Apple makes right now?
- HumblyTossed 3y agoGoing from a personal computer to a tablet or phone is not a stretch. Trying to include a freaking car is. Come on.
- mynameisvlad 3y agoWhy, exactly, is that a stretch? I gave reasons as to why a car is a computer. Examples of parallels between it and phones/tablets/computers and examples of the literal interconnected computers being used in modern cars. You’ve done nothing but say it’s a stretch in two different ways now with no justification or reasoning. If you don’t have any actual reasons or rebuttals, then there’s nothing left to discuss.