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By and large, yes. NHSTA testing could be considered one aspect of review. There are all sorts of other DoT reviews of various aspects of car design to ensure t
by Sanddancer 12y ago
By and large, yes. NHSTA testing could be considered one aspect of review. There are all sorts of other DoT reviews of various aspects of car design to ensure that various safety lessons learned through the years are applied to cars. Standards like the gas tank is in front of the rear axle to help prevent it from being punctured, the placement and configuration of the gear shifter -- it's why chryslers no longer have push button gear selectors and why no one has column mounted manual shifters any more. Auto ECUs really are an outlier in terms of auditing and examination.
- Already__Taken 12y agoDo these ecu's do anything considered special that you couldn't just mandate their specs to be open and let the public ridicule do the rest?
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoThere are some bits in them that would/could rightly be considered proprietary, air/fuel maps, ignition timing, transmission shift logic, etc. I don't see any reason why those proprietary bits can't be segregated from the code we're interested in. So, to answer your question, maybe they do, but probably not by necessity.