Re:The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
by mrfusion on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @03:38PM
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Companies are spending billions of dollars in r&d to build self driving cars and you think a hobbiest is going to modify his car with his own "aggressive" self driving system?
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If you don't want a catalytic converter on your car for performance or intentionally running rich a/f mix etc.. you can put the O2 sensor into a "spark plug tool" that'll trick the O2 sensor into thinking all is well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqDmmLQ4pGk
Hacks are not required to be sophisticated to be effective and people will find them. Maybe for example if you place a 1/4 inch of extra plastic in front of the front facing radar it'll make the car follow more aggressively then it's calibrated for, who knows! that's a made up example but I expect this stuff is going to happen as it already does.
If the hobbiest is CAPABLE of doing so, then they will.
Agreed. The simple case is a car that is shipped to not allow speeds faster than say 120MPH, and the owner removing the governor.