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One of the first books that I read talked about the story of the backup tapes on the car seat that were erased when someone in Sweden (?) with heated seats drov
by larrys 11y ago
One of the first books that I read talked about the story of the backup tapes on the car seat that were erased when someone in Sweden (?) with heated seats drove home. (urban legend iirc).
- jacquesm 11y agoIirc Saab pioneered heated seats because one of their engineers had colon cancer and Saabs are pretty common in Sweden, but I'd still wager that's an urban legend because the heating is done with DC current and to reliably alter the contents of a tape you'd need a lot more of magnetic field to overcome the resistance of the magnetic particles to change direction (remanence) and you'd want that field to alternate.